Lovelorn Poets

From Anchorage to Zebulon: In Search of Missed Connections

Missed Connections in Austin, TX: (4x)(6y)0=?

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Lovelorn Poets and Don Gibson

Musical Missed Connections

(4x)(6y)0=?
Missed Connections from Austin

this represents the 4 of us with 6 years of life together
I thought it would be the rest of my time on this earth
but without you in my life it all equals nothing

 

 

Lovelorn Poets her two cents iconHer Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
Today we’re featuring three messages from Austin, Texas. Austin has a very active, fun feed with no shortage of interesting messages. Because I’m a bit of a math geek, I love to share messages featuring numbers or equations – even if it’s simple algebra. The rule of multiplying by zero can be a hard one to reconcile, don’t you think?


Missed Connections in Brooklyn, NY: Angel Guarded

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Where Angels Cry by D. Sharon Pruitt

 

Angel Guarded
Missed Connections from Brooklyn

I have cast aside all hopes of being guarded by an angel. . .
For when my soul cries? Do you hear it?

If I, over here, blurred into the horizons of the other shore
Whisper into the ocean
Can you listen to the song the sirens break -beat
waves and ripple in the tides
that crash into the rocks of your bones.
But the blood is gone

A carcass remains, weak and weary of risk yet again.
I have bared my soul too many times,
Presented already under pressed conditions
All I got, and it’s a whoooooole lot.

Not of my lot.

Lovelorn Poets her two cents iconHer Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
The Brooklyn feed is our featured location today. It’s one of my favorites to read because the emotions are raw, varied, and generally well-articulated. It’s been a mighty long time since I’ve visited this amazingly transformed borough, but the vestiges of hopes and tears from the many souls who have walked its streets still appear.


Missed Connections on Long Island, NY: Didn’t Want To Ask

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Missed Connections on Long Island, NY

chime of the tolling bell by Rene Schlegel

 

Didn’t Want To Ask
Missed Connections from Long Island

years of saying we were soul mates ~ why didn’t you choose me?
stop the bell from ticking twelve ~ or we can’t be!

 

One Year Ago: Missed Connections in Ann Arbor, MI: Prince Charming Has Left The Kingdom

Lovelorn Poets her two cents iconHer Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
Even though this short message from Long Island is a simple rhyme, I was taken in by the image of the tolling bell. Part fairy-tale, part death knell reminder that time is growing short (at least from our poet’s perspective). Could it be that the years of soul-mated-ness are a contributing factor? Some  answers we will never have…


 

Missed Connections on the Jersey Shore, NJ: Thinking Of You

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Missed Connections in Jersey Shore

polaroid by Ally Aubry

 

Thinking Of You
Missed Connections from Jersey Shore

Sitting on the beach in bayhead thinking about the way life could have been …
thinking about the times we had and how I let things end …
wishing I had one more day to roll in the sand …
I would give up everything to walk and hold your hand ..

Lovelorn Poets her two cents iconHer Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
 Today we’re featuring three message from the Jersey Shore. It’s one of my favorite feeds for its mix of crazy randomness (UFO sightings and unicorns), road rage (hello mind-numbing traffic!) and ocean-side romances great and small. The personality of the Jersey Shore has become a bit of an extreme caricature over the years but the people who write to this forum are quite a bit more than that.


 

Missed Connections in Ventura County, CA: I Miss You Every Day

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Lovelorn Poets and the Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes

Musical Missed Connections

I Miss You Every Day
Missed Connections in Ventura County

Dear Blue Eyes,

Tomorrow is your birthday and I don’t get to spend it with you.
I miss you so much, and just wish that things could be the way they were.
We were great together at one point, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.
I wish you were here.
Love and miss you so much.

Heartbroken,
-Brown Eyes

Lovelorn Poets her two cents iconHer Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
Today we’re featuring some messages  from Ventura County, California. Despite its close proximity to Los Angeles it’s a slow feed. I suppose I should just start following the LA forum – not sure why I don’t (uummmm…could it be that I already have 50+ locations on my list? :-0) Sad messages about blue eyes remind me of this song by the Velvet Underground. Sometimes, the line is very thin between feeling mad and feeling sad, don’t you think?


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