Truly, this: My thoughts
of you won’t leave the worn paths
carved within my heart
Our eyes, our mouths, locked
invisible caresses
skin to skin, linger
I meant everything
my silent lips have said
and more. Yes, there is more.
Bar Harbor, Maine
Sometimes there is no clear path. There are many things I want to express, but at the same time I have to question myself: to what end?
Mincing words almost always leads me to haiku. This is a series of three haikus. Together they are but a scratch along the surface of everything I keep inside.
The last haiku is 5-7-5, but for aesthetic purposes I dropped the 7th syllable of the second line down to the last line. So, instead of a haiku, its a my-ku 😉
Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 her poetry manuscript, "Eucalyptus," was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. The manuscript explores her Sephardic Jewish ancestry and bi-cultural heritage.
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