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Title:       Different
Date:        2024-04-08
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2024_apr08_different/
Word Count:  201
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> Finally, our (optional) prompt for the day takes its inspiration from
> Laura Foley’s poem “Year End.” Today, we challenge you to write a poem
> that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people (or
> things) that shouldn’t really have ever met – whether due to time, space,
> age, the differences in their nature, or for any other reason.


As our palms touched for the first time
Reaching across icy air
I felt the spark of familiarity and delight
The retreat of despair
Crackled in the static night

I felt then as I feel every time
I look into your jewel eyes
That we had already met many times
In a previous life
Or as a clock chimes

One evening while out for a stroll
Both younger then and alone
Soft light, reflections caught well
And echoed footsteps on stone
Oh well

Perhaps we passed one another unknowingly
And something of the scent or impression
Stayed in the mind until later years
Released finally as a procession
Of kisses and joyus tears

If I had known you that evening
Or in a previous life
Would you have seemed different?

Or does the spark of familiarity
Last throughout all changes?