A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Saturday, August 05, 2023

partial harm

A piece of a poem
curved inward and hit
to the left of my heart,
now I'm sick of it.

An almost-glance,
almost grasp, almost
kiss. Sometimes
the worst hits
are dealt by near-miss.

And yet we seek on,
reach out, try to catch -
until every lesson that taught
we were wrong to try
has gone past

unlearned, unshared.
Unheeded in every
moment we dared.

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