origami

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origami

kiss my melancholy
kiss my regrets
silence them forever
like a never told vignette
kiss my yesterdays
bid them all adieu
the illusions I cherished
the dreams that never came true
kiss my pain
caress my history
come unfold my heart
like a tender origami

211 thoughts on “origami”

  2. So beautiful, as always. I like the way the lines are short and directive, and mesmerizing, hypnotic, just like the process of folding and unfolding origami. I feel like this origami is healing – I have a soft spot for origami, and once wrote a poem about it myself. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!! I want to fold it up in my pocket.

    unfolding just like the process of origami being folded…

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    1. Interesting ow you related the short lines with origami. Wasn’t something that purposely did, but I can so see the connection.
      Great coerelation. I love origami myself. This is the second time I write about it. I once used a line my origami heart.

      Thrilled by your amazing praise. Very touched that you liked this so much, Thank you for your kind words of appreciation.
      They made me so happy. Thanks.

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  5. There’s a desperation I feel in this. Eagerly wanting, almost needing, that kiss to help you heal, let go, forget and move on … and also wanting your heart to be opened and explored. It’s as if it has never truly been given that chance. I love how you compared your heart to origami. It makes me think of the heart being a complex work of art, yet it became complex because of all the things from your past that you speak of (the regrets, the illusions and dreams that never came true). The “caress my history” line… this is beautiful. Makes me think that you’re asking someone to understand and embrace it, rather than erase and deny it. It’s a part of who you are and to love you would mean accepting the history that made you who you are.

    

You allowed a good piece of your origami heart to leak into this poem, Sir A. Really love this.

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    1. Let me be honest with you Lady B. I read this comment several hours ago. I have reread it so many times.
      For some reason you just go beyond the meaning of the poem to the deepest core of the thoughts inside my soul.

      I am here scratching my head wondering how you do this. I think there are many similarities in our personalities
      and that isn ow you do it. But I really do not. It is amazing.

      Touched, humbled, and dumbfounded.
      Thank you for the way you read (or is it see through) me.
      So appreciate your feedback. Thank you.

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      1. Now I’m scared. Another person out there with a personality like mine is dangerous to society. Lol.

        No special powers. I just write what I sense. You’re very welcome, Sir A. Always my pleasure.

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  7. Don’t we want to love someone so deeply and passionately, that we trust them to share all our secrets, knowing they’ll keep our confidence and heal our wounds, because they love us so completely in return? Yes, we do. This poem is achingly sensuous.

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    1. Sharon that is the way love should be. Unfolding our hearts and soul, baring our deepest secrets hoping love will heal us.

      Thank you for another thoughtful, very touching comment. Your words always touch my soul. Thank you so much for your beautiful soulful words. They mean so much to me. Thank you.

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    1. Truly happy that you liked this piece. Grateful and humbled by your beautiful words. Healing needs to be a gentle unfolding of the heart.

      Thank you for taking the time out to read and leave your beautiful comment. Your efforts and kindness are so appreciated. Thank you.

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  21. what’s origami? I’m sure theres an answer to how this relates? But, very nice. Very beautiful. Thanks for sharing your gift with the world.

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    1. Origami is attributed to the Japanese culture. It is the art of folding paper, making paper sculptures and other artistic figures.

      The protagonist is asking for the lady to heal him with her power of love (kisses). He is rerquesting she remove his layers of pain by “unfolding” him like origami,

      Thank you for your comment. It is greatly appreciated.

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    1. Haha It sure seems like it, doesn’t it. Origami does need gentleness. Just like the healing process requires the heart to be opened (unfolded)
      to release the pain we hold within.

      Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment. I appreciate your consistent gentleness when sharing your thoughts.
      Thank you

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  24. So much beautiful expression of melancholic pain.amazing bonsai,dear dew!! Image are related from Lord Buddha or Japaanees culture then this post can be most wonderful.are you agree dear?Lord Buddha said-Ego can not accept the truth.if you mind,plz sorry,dear dew.!!

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    1. Ego cannot not accept the truth. Such wise words from a wise man.

      Happy you liked my little poem Aruna. It is about tender healing through love (kisses).
      Thank you for yur beautiful words. They are so appreciated.

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  25. Most innocent demand for a kiss to remove all pains.but by origami,it is impossible dear!! So i say you to search your ballerina.dream comes true,my dear and Miracle happens,dear dew!! Most enchanting and appealing touch in your poem.but about of image……..you know what i say.not matching your beautiful poem.here i am sending you a wonderful image on your email.plz reply how is that?

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    1. Yes, an innocent demand for healing kisses. Kisses to make one happy, forhet our pains and sadness, and difficult past.
      Origami is ooften associated with the Japanese culture. It is the art of folding paper.
      With the tender kisses of a loved one and their love and patience they can “unfold my heart”
      like origami.
      Do you see why I ended the poem like that?
      Plz rply

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          2. Hey dew!! I am sending you a kiss on your forehead.this will remove your all pains.but i am Angel guardian.plz search your ballerina soon.i can not bear your loneliness.plz give attention whatever i am saying.

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  27. Yeah.most amazing lines” caress my history come unfold my heart like a tender origami.”it is shining in your post like diamond.most appreciated by me.i like that lines.dear dew!!!

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  29. If you come closer I’ll spit on you. I HATE the photo like always. Goddamn trash! You and the fucking women! I hate you! You pick the photos over me so you will never get a kiss you stupid son of a bitch!

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  35. Drew, I apologize for coming so late to this party. Is it a party?

    The tenderness and beauty of this poem is beyond beautiful. Your poem is a temple in which the power of kisses and caresses posses magical healing properties. “Unfolding” appears to represent here an escape from a past characterized by “the illusions I cherished /the dreams that never came true”

    “come unfold my heart
    like a tender origami”

    One can see the origami unfolding. Exquisite imagery. An imagery that persist on the retina.

    What a masterpiece. You have this unbelievable quality of creating poems whose beauty cannot be touched. It can be only felt.

    G

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    1. Oh G,

      No worries about your timing. Always grateful to see you here.

      Touched by the way you read me here. Also touched by your beautiful and generous praise. Can’t thank you enough.
      You are much to kind. You have me floating in the Orlando skies.

      Thank you for everything. I am so grateful.

      Have the most beautiful evening.

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  36. This is so heartfelt ……how sometimes we wish to undo a few things …….to relive some moments ………and to hold time in our fists so that those moments don’t slip

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  39. Hey,
    Once, I told you, write as though no one will read the poem except you and your heart. To me this read that way …a little. A beautiful little.

    A glimpse into what you can do as a writer and a poet when you only write for you. I don’t know if your beautiful readers have realised that you’ve never really written something where you are exposing your self this way. I personally have never read you asking the object
    of your poetry to come close to you and kiss you and erase your pain. Ever. It was so tender and vulnerable (I know you are a bit iffy with that word) but this was the epitome of that. Each line a request to be loved and held in all senses, past and present and it flowed and flowed so beautifully I didn’t want it to end.
    And then your ending was a stunning metaphor of the intricacy and delicacy of a heart and a man in love. The care and meticulous beauty and detail that goes into origami was absolutely perfect for a heart that has endured so much and needs the right touch of softest hands and kisses to unfold it’s complicated creases and patterns.
    It’s a head and heart breaker when we miss something and long for something and need and desire and love it even though it has never quite reached us in its entirety..but it happens and we pour our hearts out of this love and longing and beautiful poetry comes from it.
    I am so…effing impressed with you and the way your writing has deepened and beautified you and your poetry so much.
    So many lines here that I loved.
    All of them.

    But:

    “…kiss my pain
    caress my history
    come unfold my heart…”

    That. 💋💋

    Your,
    Fiery
    ❤️🔥

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    1. Smiling hard here, because you are so right. I don’t think I ever left myself so exposed (unfolded) in anything I have written.
      It came from a deep place in me and it was a very vulnerable….for lack of a better word – plea. I thought it was a softer side
      of me, and honestly, this one poem initiated many emails and private messages asking if I am okay.

      This is very odd because I have never been happier in my life, but my poetry had been so sad recently. Don’t know if it is because I have
      isloated myself from the rest of my world (New York). So, I won’t question my inner creative soul, I will just ride with it.

      Thank you for your gorgeous comments. This comment unlike many of your others in the past, was missing humor and your little innuendos, I
      suppose that means you took this poem more seriously or at least it touched you in a way where you didn’t want to go there. Either way,
      I am touched by his words.

      Thank you for your kind and generous words. You humble me with your beautiful praise.
      Thank you.

      Lonely Author . xoxoxo

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      1. I know…it was different- this comment. Actually I hit send and thought, he is going to think there is something wrong with me but I couldn’t stain this beautiful poem with silly banter.
        But as you know, things have been difficult for me this last week. I haven’t been in a great place and I didn’t mean for it to come out here, but what can I do. You bring out truth in me and I can’t hide stuff from you.

        I think you’re absolutely right, don’t question that inner creative soul. Let it take you away. It knows what it’s doing. I think your readers and friends here care about you so much, it’s beautiful to see. And they feel your words and want you to be okay and that should give you such a warm feeling of love which you use so beautifully in your poetry. Serious again, I know. You’ll have to be patient with me,lol (As if you could ever be any other way)

        This one did touch me. Different to anything else for the reasons I told you and because sometimes things can get so dark and we need to see a light somewhere and I think I just read this poem of yours at the perfect time. So it all added up.
        There’s another level past this that you’ve yet to touch but it’s on this same vein and you’ll flow towards it.

        I don’t know how to close this.

        Imagine me hugging you waaaaaaay too long and possibly inappropriately.

        Many kisses

        Fiery
        ❤️🔥

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        1. Fiery, you see I mentioned you most likely didn’t want to play around with this poem because you knew this came from
          deep inside me. And I love you for that. These last two or three poems were straight from the heart, and even exposing
          myself to everyone. So that you respected it, well, I am touched.

          Laughing. Yes, I will be gentle. I always am.

          Humbled that you connected with this.

          Don’t tempt my imagination dear. You know I can be a bad boy.

          Thank you for your gorgeous reply. It means so much.
          Many kisses right back.

          Lonely Author . xoxo

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  46. I’ve re-read this poem a few times and I have to say that Fiery’s comment was right on. It is difficult to open yourself up and allow others to see the pain. It’s been hard for me to do that, but at the same time, I’ve found that sharing my experiences, even in poetry, have helped me in the healing process.
    I think I understand, too, why your poetry is a little sad even though you are now in such a beautiful place. I love England, but I’m also isolated from my family and close friends there. I love the places I visit and the things I see, but when you go back to your quiet room and there is no one to share these things with, it can make the loneliness more profound. I spent a lot of time making video calls to my family. But honestly, until there is someone who can kiss away the pain, the regrets, the melancholy, it is difficult not to feel alone. Sometimes, even in family gatherings, I feel this quiet emptiness inside wishing I had my own love.
    Sorry, I’m rambling now. To sum up: beautiful, eloquent, touching and deeply honest. Thank you xoxo

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    1. Your words summed up many things for me. My only family is my 25 year old daughter in New York, who is so caught up in her life we only chat once or twice a week. Even when one is surrounded by such beauty as I currently am, one wishes to share it with someone.

      I see we have shared many of the same experiences.

      Regarding my poetry. My dear friend Fiery is right. I have made an effort to “unfold” my feelings and experiences and inject them in my poetry. My writing wes very flat and two dimensional, I am doing my best to make my verses read. STILL LEARNING.

      So your words touched me. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and experiences. It should be easy for you to express these feelings in your poetry, you just expressed them so easily with me. Now, tap into your heart, remember the loneliness, the pain, the tears. And write from the memories.

      Thank you for this gorgeous comment. I am so lucky to have met you here in WordPress. And I so appreciate your words and thoughts.
      Thank you so much. xoxoxo

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      1. My best posts are the ones I write when I write as though I’m the only one reading them. Several of my poems have come from that pain filled place. I’m glad I met you here. You have really inspired me to practice my poetry and because of that I am getting better at it. Hugs to my dear friend xoxo

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          1. Soon, my friend, soon. I’ve been moving back in, dealing with jet lag, working and busy with family. But I’ve started a few and I just need to get one of them finished. And I will be commenting on yours sometime today. Sending my love xoxo

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