Hello, everyone. My poem “Forgotten” is now live at Manuela Timofte’s blog In A Love World. Thank you so much, Manuela, for sharing this poem. Truly appreciated.
“Forgotten”
© 2021 by Michael L. Utley
Those who fade away
Dust-covered and forgotten
Hushed in melancholy thought
Those of us denied
Peering through the river reeds
Watching joy drift out of reach
Who will remember
Those abandoned on the path
Those who fall by the wayside
We the silent ones
Mournful ones invisible
Just a burden nothing more…
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Silent Pariah 
Excellent, Mike! 🌷
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you will never be forgotten
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Congratulations!
The poem is beautiful!
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Clicking over to read the rest.
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Congratulations Mike 🫶
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Congratulations Mike! Your poem is beautifully written. It is love that call us to remember and help the “forgotten.” Compassion is simply love in action. Let all of us have a compassionate heart for the forgotten. Blessings, my friend!
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Mike, this is so staggeringly expressive. So much to reflect upon in this emotive piece in which I can already relate to myself. I find it to be a perpetually moving phase of my life as well. I ponder these thoughts as well.
Most vividly, as I get older, I think about rubbing the wrinkles and moving veins on my grandmother’s boney hands when she lovingly kneaded dough for biscuits. Now I see my hands looking older and I think of how much I loved her and her timeless hands.
Your writing always takes me to places I have been and the joy I feel when that happens. However, there is nothing forgettable about you or your writing, Mike.
It is so sad to me that at least in the USA we don’t respect the elderly, as we should. Those who as you so honestly put it:
“One day you will weep
Reach out bony fingers as
Youth and beauty pass you by
As you fade away
Dust-covered and forgotten
Hushed in melancholy thought”
Thank you so much for this publication, Manuela. I so appreciate your mutual appreciation for the uniqueness and beauty of Mike’s work, and the publication of his works.
Mike, sending you a bouquet of flying flowers full of chocolate and our love, always.
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I miss reading your work, Mike, and couldn’t resist stopping by. I hope you’re doing okay, my friend. Congrats on the publication! I’m heading over to read the rest. ❤
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truly a marvel. I’ll head over soon, Mike💕
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