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Sealed Envelope

Poetry on Silence

By Michelle Liew Tsui-LinPublished about a year ago ā€¢ Updated about a year ago ā€¢ 1 min read
Sealed Envelope
Photo by Natasya Chen on Unsplash

This is for Vocal's I Didn't Say That Out Loud Challenge

When voices fail, paper remembers.

šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ

Brown, sealed envelope

A hidden message within

Words denied world's gaze

šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ

Words covered by fear

Masked sentences drift with time

Penned words left unread

šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ

Inked words share secrets

Hands will muted words to ink

Curled forms that are true

šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’ŒšŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ šŸ’Œ

Small words find the light

Penned forms muted no longer

Silenced words now read.

Original Senryu Chain by Michelle Liew.

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Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin

Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.

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