Mend Your Life Archives - Lovelorn Poets

Lovelorn Poet in Raleigh-Durham, NC: ~A Long Word~ (~Your Poet~)

October 10, 2018 by lovelornpoets

Word Length Landscape by Carrie Roy

Love in my heart is
Honorificabilatudinitatibusness

And from my heart springs
Grace…unmercilessness

Beside your Love chamber
In my mind’s vestibule
There I labor the Word
That it fills yours as full

~your poet~

While scrolling through the Raleigh-Durham Missed Connections today, I noticed that “Your Poet” tried to post a new poem. As is the norm now, such messages are now flagged and removed, which is unfortunate. However, I still have a few of their pieces saved in the archive, so all is not totally lost. FYI, in case you’re curious, honorificabilitudinitatibus can be translated as “the state of being able to achieve honours”. It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. It is also the longest word in the English language featuring only alternating consonants and vowels. 🙂

Lovelorn Poet in NYC: The Fool

October 8, 2018 by lovelornpoets

Untitled by Andrea Mann

look
before you leap
but once
the decision is made
it is time
to push forward
and not look back
have courage
commit
to your path
and be fully
in the moment
welcome new
and travel lightly
there will be
a positive outcome

This poem was posted to the NYC Missed Connections around the time of the last presidential election. As the voter registration deadline for the November mid-terms is fast approaching in most states, it seems like a good idea to share it. Decisions get made, but let’s hope the outcomes take a positive turn.

Lovelorn Poet in Savannah, GA: Short Shadows (Bison Jack)

July 6, 2018 by lovelornpoets

In the Light by Thijs Paanakker

Below this jet stream of particles and light–
in the deep water that carries the hymns of the unrequited–
is the dream you have awakened by the way you look at me.
–Bison Jack

”Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.” – Jane Porter

Lovelorn Poet in Raleigh-Durham, NC: Commence To Kissing (Your Poet)

June 14, 2018 by lovelornpoets

Opposites Attract by Clayton Shonkwiler

To awaken now
The initiate
Re’membering what
We did forget

The crucible
From which we came
The Light of Love
Eternal flame

By what’s inside
And what Will be
Dis’covering
Eternally

Each thing that is
We find was missing
When opposites
Commence to kissing

~Your Poet~

Here’s another saved gem from Raleigh-Durham’s “Your Poet.” Even though they didn’t post to the Missed Connections as frequently as mindgallery or Bison Jack, they were regular enough that I got into the habit of paying closer attention to that feed (plus, it helped considerably that they always placed their signature in the subject line!)

Lovelorn Poet in Toronto, ON: Smiles (Parkdale)

April 12, 2018 by lovelornpoets

Happy Face by Marc Falardeau

Smiles today
Smiles tonight
Smiles tomorrow
Smiles the day after

Sometimes some people
Just make it easy
Putting a smile on your face
She put a smile on my face

And now I’m in the mood
For love.
Oh baby I’m in the mood
For you.

It’s wreckless achievement
It’s a solemn dilemma
A pact under grievous error
I swore to be sincere

I swore to be loyal and true
It’s a shame
It’s a shamble
I swore to much and now

Baffled by intriguement
Stunning shock waves
It’s all in the eyes
Your eyes tell a story

I want to know the whole
Story.
From start to finish
I want to be in the middle

Pages of the
Book of your eyes
I want to finish the story
And read about me in it…

The “Parkdale Poet” was quite active a few years ago, publishing rambling tales of life, love, and debauchery but their words have long since disappeared from my Missed Connections seeking eye. Where they’ve gone to, I’ll never know.