I Took a Picture of Your Name for dVerse Poets, Feb 14, 2025

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I Took A Picture Of Your Name.

After so many years, seeing it again on the screen,
I took a picture of your name.
Not written by your hand,
it had a strangeness––
featureless, revealing nothing.
It had no voice,
no breath.

Out there sharing itself with the world,
it has formed a wall around
that intimacy it birthed when you took my hand in yours,
using your name to pull me closer,
powerless against its strength on your tongue.

Everyone wanted to share a part of what made you you,
but I only wanted to be with you, back when,
scrawled in your careless hand,
you were written on my soul.

Wanting to be perfect for you,
remembering that tattoo you traced across my back.
Your name and mine.
“Always,” you wrote.

For the dVerse Poet’s Pub, Feb 14, 2025

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

20 thoughts on “I Took a Picture of Your Name for dVerse Poets, Feb 14, 2025”

  8. kim881's avatarkim881

    This is such a beautiful, poignant poem, Judy, it made me quite tearful. I especially love these lines:

    ‘…I only wanted to be with you, back when,
    scrawled in your careless hand,
    you were written on my soul.’

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Thanks, Kim. This is one poem in my book I hope will be out in two months..50 years of love poems. As you might imagine, they have roused a few tears in me, too, in the two years I’ve been compiling them and trying to get the book together. (Written over a 50 year period.)

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