Love Letter to the Unseen

June 24: The Atlas of Invisible Geography - Document the work of someone who can see and map emotional terrain. Include detailed cartographic symbols for different feelings. Use traditional map-making terminology. Consider how emotional landscapes shift over time. End with discovering an uncharted emotional territory. - Daily Poetry Writing Prompts 2025

Tracing your topography is an exercise in patience and acceptance

Knowing that goosebumps and peaking nips are nothing compared to the ripple beneath your skin

Where tectonic plates shift unpredictably, while panic and self-doubt alter terrain more than any seismologist would ever be able to track

I track your craters and your hilltops

The curve of your hip dips into breathtaking landscape

I trail gently, purposefully across you

Know where pressure points can cause rumbles and where they can release life in a gasp of breath

Adjusting at backshores knowing rain can pop up anywhere and any time

Yet you, are a compilation of complexity and beauty

Terra firma, layers of memory like rings of tree rooted yet still waving wildly in the wind

You may bend, but though never break

Something in the roots of your ancestry, the resistance against annihilation though it may often feel like you don't know how to carry forward

Yet your voice moves me in seismic ways

Elevating me more than you may ever understand

And I will hold your downpour

Turn it into drinking wells, and water this earth

For I know you are thirsty, filled brim with desire

Hope, fear, hope

But you are not alone, and together we landmark each moment

Regardless of high waters or foreign lands

We will reach relief, stable ground,

And you will discover how much you've truly planted and grown

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How's that? Gosh, these poetry prompts ain't playin. Though I must say, it's quite a learning experience, having to dig deeper and do some research. A nice activity to expand vocabulary.

Anyhow, I will be writing each poem on the correlating day but posting it on the following one. You can read more about these shenanigans below.