Sky-Blue
A Villanelle of Unreachable Longing and Haunting Absence
I reach for Sky-Blue where the daylight fades,
The river bends with echoes—echoes I cannot name,
A sky so vast it burns me through the shades.
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The fire smells of cedar in the glades;
Yet your absence burns like flame, like flame, like flame,
I reach for Sky-Blue where the daylight fades.
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I traced your footprints where the snow still braids,
The earth in white—white silence, white ache—though nothing feels the same,
A sky so vast it burns me through the shades.
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The wind whispers truth through trembling blades,
Your voice a ghost—a ghost— your laughter a lost claim,
I reach for Sky-Blue where the daylight fades.
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The maple bleeds, and still my heart persuades
It might return—return to me— but nothing will reclaim
A sky so vast it burns me through the shades.
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I walk alone where memory invades,
And call your name—your name— through dusk that knows no shame,
I reach for Sky-Blue where the daylight fades,
A sky so vast it burns me through the shades.
About the Creator
E.S.Flint
I’m an Indigenous storyteller using poetry and short fiction to explore identity, love, loss and all the spaces we return to.
What I can't say, I write. Because feeling it all is the point.
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This reads so lyrically - I especially like the refrains in the middle of each stanza, like an echo. Beautiful!