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LilacsandLace
Member since September 18, 2024
Member for 1 year, 8 months
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Garden of Incipience
I wish I didn’t
know you so well,
for being so far
into your soul blinded me.
I yearned for unruly entanglement.
You seek freedom of a different kind.
I know the thorns which accompany
the softness of your heart,
for we are all petals
swept between pavement cracks,
sometimes one finds a home
sometimes one remains waylorn.
We could have been everything.
I’ll let you go in time
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slow and steady
somewhere as ink soaks pages
of this whiskey-drenched heart.
I cannot keep being the door
you land on when you fall apart,
the phone call you make when
you’re drunk, lonely
and think of me at 2 a.m. when
missing you pauses my 2 p.m. life
all the time.
It’s always been
someone else for you
And for me it’s always been you.
I would have moved my world,
given it to you
but you don’t want it anyway
so I’ll take it back,
reseed this garden
watch it burst into life alone
into its own unruly entanglement
weaving around me.
I will not move my world for you
anymore.
I am not a rose,
perched patiently among thorns
waiting for you.
I am a wildflower,
blown wherever the wind goes
and only spring knows
what incipience brings now.
LilacsandLace’s timeline
- September 2025
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18 ThuAnniversary
One year of membership
- November 2024
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16 SatReceived a critique
on Garden of Incipience from @Candlewitch
"I am so pleased to see you! I felt a deep running sorrow within the lines of this poem. Also an emancipation in the last lines, which are my favorite lines: I am a wildflower, blown wherever the wind goes and only sprin…" -
16 SatReceived a critique
on Garden of Incipience from @Leslie
"Sounds like you really got into deep water. I hope you were'nt traumatized by anothers illness. I don't believe they meant for it to happen that way. Sometimes our biology just won't allow us to find a peaceful place wh…" -
15 FriReceived a critique
on Garden of Incipience from @Rula
"Dear LilacLace I think this is our first time to meet, so a warm welcome to Neopoet. This piece is kinda of bittersweet The raw feelings clearly show. I hope it's not something autobiographical (though I think it is) No…" -
14 ThuCritiqued
"In His Elements...The Unbeatable He" by @Rula
"This is such a lovely poem, brimming with love and appreciation for your other half. The second verse is my favourite; a sense of worship and admiration, the way one looks at the night sky in awe and wonder. "I see you"…" -
14 Thu
- September 2024
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26 ThuReceived a critique
on Mystic Sunset from @Candlewitch
"A stunningly gorgeous poem you have penned! Rula was right: It is hard to choose favorite lines/thoughts, but I have done so. Mine are: somehow, this weary road, this nomadic soul found a way to you; steady hands that c…" -
26 ThuReceived a critique
on Mystic Sunset from @Rula
"A Warm welcome to Neopoet community. What a seamless blend between the nature and human emotions. Really amazing tender use of language Many favorite lines, these are just some if I have to choose "We run wild, we run f…" -
25 WedCritiqued
"Boardwalk " by @Jokerface82
"Your use of imagery, as always, is eloquent. I could envision this seaside scene with such a short poem. My only critique is with these lines: "on. Sheets of purple lights drowned the sea with their glow and a theatre o…" -
25 WedCritiqued
"Shhhh..." by @Michael Anthony
"I am such a wordy writer and then I see pieces like this that say so much with so little. Truly an art form on its own! Not a critique to be had here. Love this." -
25 Wed
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24 TueReceived a critique
on Dust Blue Daisies from @Lavender
"Hello, LilacsandLace, Welcome to Neo! Love this for so many reasons: The title - Dust Blue Daisies. Representing loyalty and trust (to thine self), yet extremely rare. Much like all of us, especially the narrator (you)…" -
23 MonCritiqued
"Under The Boardwalk" by @captain 2
"My grandparents married in 1946 in England and came to Canada in 1947 after both having been in the war. Grandpa was in Germany until he got injured, then was on modified duty in a dispatch office, where he met my grand…" -
23 MonCritiqued
"THE WRATHFUL SEA" by @Jokerface82
""stripping seamen Into skeletons with silent screams." Truly, between the imagery and alliteration here, those two lines are quite powerful, as is the rest of this poem. It can be hard to put might such as that of the o…" -
22 Sun
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22 SunCritiqued
"FIRE DANCE " by @Jokerface82
"Without you mentioning either season, this is what came to mind. Stunning imagery in a few verses, and the descriptions of wind added to the sensory details. Love this!" -
22 SunCritiqued
"Exile" by @Words Ablaze
"I love how this poem expresses how well acquainted to sadness we often become. It's so hard to chase happiness and joy when they are so fleeting. As one who has suffered devere depression most of her life, this one spok…" -
22 SunReceived a critique
on At the Bottom from @Candlewitch
"You can depend upon me reading and commenting on your elegant and eloquent poetry! *hugs, Cat >{^*;*^}" -
21 SatReceived a critique
on At the Bottom from @Candlewitch
"You should enter this poem for (New Member Contest) it is fantastic! *hugs, Cat" -
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20 FriNew follower
@Candlewitch
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19 ThuNew follower
@captain 2
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19 ThuFirst critique offered
on "Monsters and Witches..." by @Geezer
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19 ThuFirst publication
Dust Blue Daisies
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19 Thu
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18 WedNew follower
@mark
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18 WedJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
An up and coming poet hoping to publish one day. Canadian. Lover of gardening, poetry, flowers, rock and roll, and gin.
Location: Canada
Favorite Poets
Shakespeare
Tom Petty
Robert Frost
Stevie Nicks
Steven Tyler
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