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Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Kissed

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Welcome to this week’s poetry club tea date!

Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a quick poem based on the following line, submitted by Every Day Poems reader Sandra Murphy. The line is from the recent poem delivery Kissed by Dave Malone.

You held my name in your coat

Your Pour

Take a moment to write a poem based on the shared line. Then add to the comment box (with a touch of cream and sugar) so other club members can enjoy.

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Looking for more inspiring lines? Check out the Every Day Poems poetry club room, where we feature additional favorite lines submitted by readers.

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  1. Maureen says

    January 22, 2021 at 12:31 pm

    My Name

    You held my name
    in your coat, its letters

    forming the warp and weft
    of love that runs the length

    of this life we’ve built,
    tensions of its days moved past.

    In colors bold and pale
    and blended as fill in

    a painting, you re-weaved
    past wrongs into rights,

    tying every thread over
    and under your heart,

    its constancy your finishing touch.

    ‘You held my name in your coat’ from ‘Kissed’ by Dave Malone.

    1-22-21

    Reply
    • Bethany R. says

      January 22, 2021 at 12:33 pm

      Maureen, this is just beautiful.

      Reply
  2. Sandra Fox Murphy says

    January 22, 2021 at 6:05 pm

    I did love this line from Dave Malone’s poem … and with his words, I’ve rewritten a December poem that had not quite worked.

    Delivered Up

    You held the name in your coat
    saved it for another time
    another son that would not come

    and you named me Daryl,
    a second son,
    carried away in warm hands.

    Was I not worthy?
    The boy who never saw your eyes
    wet with tears,

    mulled melancholy hovering
    through a family plot in Indiana?
    I could never be Thomas—

    a family name steadfast and hardy,
    unlike me—an unknotted soul pining
    to ride in your pocket to your tomorrows.

    Reply
    • Bethany R. says

      January 23, 2021 at 2:47 pm

      Touching, Sandra. “The boy who never saw your eyes/ wet with tears” Thank you for sharing this here.

      Reply
  3. Sandra Fox Murphy says

    February 8, 2021 at 10:33 am

    Bethany … Thank you for your kind words. This is a poem that’s been a struggle, and I persist. That was a second rewrite … and still wrong. I’ve rewritten it (again), and now I’m going to just let it go.

    Delivered Up

    A name is a precious gift
    bestowed with tomorrows
    to bind the weight of the past—
    not to be assigned lightly.

    But your fate was not mine
    to give—and your bounty
    was a name, etched in marble,
    once held in my coat—

    a name willed to your snugs
    as you sprung in my womb
    when I knew you—then stilled
    where I dug deep in my pocket
    and called you loved.

    Reply
    • Bethany says

      February 8, 2021 at 10:51 am

      I rewrite poems many times myself. Thank you for sharing this. I was particularly struck by

      “etched in marble”

      “then stilled
      where I dug deep in my pocket
      and called you loved.”

      Reply
      • Sandra Fox Murphy says

        February 8, 2021 at 11:07 am

        Thank you, Bethany. The poem is done. 🙂

        Reply
  4. adam Bousteadadam.boustead@icloud.com says

    January 7, 2022 at 8:59 am

    All this poems are beautiful.

    You hold my name inside your coat.

    Yours is tattooed in
    My skin over my heart the
    Scar will never heal.

    Reply
    • Sandra Fox Murphy says

      January 7, 2022 at 9:31 am

      Stunning in its brevity!

      Reply
      • Adam Boustead says

        January 7, 2022 at 9:44 am

        I wasn’t sure it worked I often know if my Haiku work or not thank you so much.

        Reply

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