24 Comments
User's avatar
H. R. Sinclair's avatar

wildflower this was such a beautiful reply! I love the delicacy at the start slowing building to a deeper, impassioned, less tamed love. Your reading adds so much to it too, I love hearing the words right from the mouth of their creator. Love it!

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

Thank you so much, Harry!! Your poem is fantastic!! I wanted to write a dignified reply. It was my first reading and I was really worried it wouldn’t be good enough.

Expand full comment
H. R. Sinclair's avatar

It was brilliant! As someone who used to hate my own voice, I so totally get it, but just stick with it and you’ll be surprised how more normal it can feel to record. Plus, you may hear your own poetry in a new way, I certainly do now.

Expand full comment
S y l v i A 🌞 K a l i n A's avatar

I love that last part, Harry. This is why I love audio and why push for it with this publication. Hearing it from the writer makes a writing take on such new meanings.

Both of your readings were so good. I’m so fortunate to have you both here on this publication. 🌞💖

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

Thank you so much for not giving up convincing me to do the reading. 🫶🏻 It was such a barrier in the beginning and finally so easy to do!!

Expand full comment
S y l v i A 🌞 K a l i n A's avatar

I was worried you’d be angry with me! I hoped I’d pushed just enough without it being too much. I really was so happy when I received your audio the next day. It’s an absolute honour for me to be alongside you on this journey. Please don’t think twice ever about reading your work out loud for us, your readers and followers. Your voice holds so much presence and beauty.

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

It was just the right dose for me. I could never be angry on you!! Thank you so much, I never liked my voice on audios but you gave me a new view on it.

Expand full comment
S y l v i A 🌞 K a l i n A's avatar

Hugs!!! You’re welcome. Thank you for trusting yourself and me. 🌞

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

🤍🤍🤍

Expand full comment
Dwight Lee Wolter's avatar

What love is this whose “smoke filled my lungs

tarred lust stuck to every edge

A beautiful blackening” ?

Why am I so attracted to that which loves to deplete me?

Why am I emptied by fullness

And filled by emptiness?

What kind of Muse is this

That mistakes and then forsakes

Me for another?

I am blinded by a match

Struck at midnight. And yet

able to trod a crooked path

Lit only by darkness.

-Dwight Lee Wolter

Expand full comment
S y l v i A 🌞 K a l i n A's avatar

Well this was nice to land upon! You should consider reaching out to me so you can come a part of the series, Dwight! I am in a state of transitioning the publication to combine forces with Jozef Cain to continue ongoing collaborations as it gets tricky to run a community platform on one's own. I'd love to have you featured in upcoming poetic letters.

Expand full comment
Samantha Lazar's avatar

Smoking! Both of you!

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

Thanks so much, Samantha!!

Expand full comment
H. R. Sinclair's avatar

Thank you thank you! 💛

Expand full comment
quiet reminders's avatar

Oauuu beautiful

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

Thanks so much!!

Expand full comment
Mark Farley's avatar

Thank you, the poems were mesmerising, hypnotic, & enthralling, 🙏

Expand full comment
S y l v i A 🌞 K a l i n A's avatar

Thank you for being here, Mark! And for restacking! 🙏

Expand full comment
Mark Farley's avatar

An absolute pleasure, I look forward to reading more.

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

Thank you so much, Mark!! It was so much fun, doing this!!

Expand full comment
Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Stark clouds tar my lips kissed by warm sun melt

the roads recover asphalt splendor;

rise with rain cascades, lost moments rivulets rush--

lip synced down pressed by tired thoughts, soul splashes.

The tar rises black, but with water a mixture of rain-botic memories

to color the kisses consumed into a night of thunderous light.

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

Fantastic!!

Expand full comment
Ral Joseph's avatar

Beautiful work... I love how dark the images are and a poetry is like a song, it's smoking hot Sylvia ❤️

Expand full comment
wildflower's avatar

Thanks so much, Ral!!

Expand full comment