From Anchorage to Zebulon: In Search of Missed Connections
Brown
Some roses are red
coffee is normally brown
please don’t turn me down
its a rhyming haiku (if you’re not the coffee girl but you’re cute you can contact me 2 )
One Year Ago: Lovelorn Poet in Athens, GA: Hipster Beauty With Menthols
Musical Missed Connections
Can’t stop thinking about you.
Can’t stop thinking about those pretty blue eyes.
Can’t stop thinking about kissing those lips, that sexy dimple.
Can’t stop wondering what you smell like.
Can’t stop wishing.
One Year Ago: Missed Connections in Fargo, ND: Items of Little Interest
Her Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
Musical Missed Connections
It has been eye opening to pursue others when usually I date those who pursue me.
When you’re pursued you don’t have to make yourself vulnerable at all, and can even take for granted the fact that you are receiving attention and even deserve to be loved.
Your ambivalence and caution hurts others but they likely won’t tell you.
When you’re pursuing another, you have to take risks with your heart.
You have to try to love someone whose reticence can seem like a referendum on your attractiveness, intelligence, and emotional health.
You have to believe that you deserve to be loved even when another refuses to do so.
If the person you pursue rejects you, even in the kindest way, it’s still done full of disrespectful half-truths and lies meant to soften the blow.
But the real blow is not to have the relationship end.
It is to feel so stupid for having made one’s self vulnerable to someone didn’t, and maybe couldn’t, care.
One Year Ago: Missed Connection in Boston, MA: You Grabbed My Legs
Her Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
This message from Seattle prompts a number of responses – from empathy at the heartbreak our poet is clearly feeling to “what goes around comes around” dismissal for their previously cavalier and aloof attitude toward those interested in them. Sure, falling down and skinning your knee isn’t enjoyable but if you’re having fun on the playground, it’s going to happen sooner or later. Better to have a stock of band-aids on hand than to spend a life sitting on the bench, right?
Musical Missed Connections
Do you ever wonder…
what people would do or say or regret if you died?
One Year Ago: Missed Connection in Minneapolis, MN: Those Blue Eyes
Her Two Cents from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle-Finder:
Sure, we all wonder what other people think about us – but would you really, really want to know? There is some truth to the saying, “ignorance is bliss.” I wasn’t familiar with the 70s hard-rock band Bloodrock before the Music Guru brought this tune to my attention but the song and the video fit today’s message pretty well. No one is guaranteed a long life, so perhaps it’s best to enjoy the moments while we have them!
rain
The rain has washed your
chalk-marks off my sidewalk:
our love sheds a skin…
One Year Ago: Lovelorn Poet in Seattle, WA: Egg in the Ocean