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TheWellWornMask's avatar

Genius. As always.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks Faceless🙏

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Minks 🫦's avatar

the moon is beautiful. as is your writing. and stanza 3. 🩵

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

I am glad you liked it Minks! Why stanza 3?

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Minks 🫦's avatar

just do

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Chamonix Rassekh's avatar

This is incredible

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

thanks! glad you liked it

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M.W. Sturdivant's avatar

Wait, have you been flipping through my journal?

All jokes aside, this is beautiful, raw, unfiltered. Thank you for sharing.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Haha nooo I swear I haven’t

Thank you for reading Maddie!☺️

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Rea de Miranda's avatar

This is beautiful writing, Cass! Thank you. <3

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Really appreciate it Rea! But I should be the one thanking you❤️

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Rea de Miranda's avatar

No! You write so beautiful about us women, Cass. <3 <3

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

That means so much to hear, Rea.

I try to write the way I listen with reverence for what’s often left unsaid.

If the words made you feel seen, then they did what they came here to do.

Thank you for holding them so gently ❤️❤️❤️

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Jane Fitcher's avatar

Wonderful…

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

thank you Jane!! Really happy you liked this poem :)

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Ramesh Prasad's avatar

Incredibly good. I am a poet myself and am glad to see people posting them here. I was told this platform prefers prose. And so I didn't post mine here.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

You should post it!! There’s people posting all kinds of poetry. I play with different styles

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Ramesh Prasad's avatar

Thanks for the encouragement. I have actually tried to do something different. I am building posts around the theme of my poems and posting them together in Substack. Hope people like them.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

I am sure they will!

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Pages After Dark's avatar

Fr tho, that title?? I love that title! So creative. The whole concept of the poem is really good. Kudos to you!!

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Woww thank you so much for this compliment! I appreciate it :)

I’m so happy you enjoyed iy

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Mirabela Căpîlna's avatar

i knew her. i was her. the girl the moon forgot to name once built herself a home on a hill no one else could see.

i wrote a poem years ago about that real place, where silence held me when no one else did.

reading this felt like being remembered in a language i thought i’d made up.

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Mirabela Căpîlna's avatar

for the girl the moon forgot to name… this is where i hid ↓ 🌒

the hill that held me.

at fourteen years, and even more,

i left my thoughts at village door.

i took my bike with pink and grace,

and found myself a hidden place.

no human foot had touched that land,

no reaching voice, no helping hand.

i think, perhaps, i searched the skies

for some soft face, for kinder eyes.

the stars looked down but did not speak,

the wind just kissed my tear-stained cheek.

i wasn’t lost, not quite, not yet,

but every step felt soaked in debt.

i rode away from noise and name,

from whispers filled with quiet shame.

i found my hill, my resting bed,

where all the words stayed in my head.

and though i hoped for someone’s light,

for arms to hold me through the night,

i sat alone, with breath held tight,

and made my peace with being slight.

i carved a space, i made it mine,

a secret spot where stars could shine.

no one had been there, none had known,

that i had turned my ache to stone.

but oh, that stone was soft and deep,

it held the dreams i couldn’t keep.

and on that hill, i laid them bare

my heart, my thoughts, my silent prayer.

so maybe, yes, i looked above,

for something close to human love.

but when no hand reached out to stay,

i held myself and stayed that way.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Is this a poem you had already posted on your page? Thanks for sharing this with me Mira? The last lines hit extremely close to home😭

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Thomas Cargen's avatar

You have such a gift with words. Always brilliant.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks Thomas! Just a knack for coming up with bizarre metaphors

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Thomas Cargen's avatar

No. You have some magic. Just a knack, is maybe just to say an ocean is just a bunch of water n salt.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Wow that’s such an amazing compliment in the form of a metaphor! I can’t even argue with that😂

Thank you Thomas 🙏🙏

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Hema's avatar

Loved this one, tell your pen to keep flowing it’s orbiting hearts already 🤩

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

haha I will tell him, Hema

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A New Dawn Healing Arts's avatar

I will give space for this, my friend when I have the time to devote my full, uninterrupted heart and attention.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

thanks Dawn! I think you will enjoy it when you do

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Sae Abiola's avatar

This is hauntingly beautiful soft, mysterious, and quietly powerful. That line “born from an impatient hush” lingers. She feels like both a secret and a prayer.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

thank you so much for reading and enjoying Sae!

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Anna Poon's avatar

Having one of those days where the words take longer. Very creative. Very pretty

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Aww glad you liked it Anna

Hope the words come back to you soon

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Simona's Stories's avatar

This is Epic. As a lover of the Moon and living by it it spoke to me in all its ways. Wonderful Cassian 💙🌬🦋

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

thank you Simona!! I am so flattered by this :)

Glad it resonated with you

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Inside Ayannah’s Mind's avatar

This is one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever read

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Awww this such an amazing compliment❤️❤️

I am so glad you enjoyed it🙏

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