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Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 12:56 pm on May 23, 2026
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Poetry’s Love

Writing again has been nice. It’s been about three years since I’ve posted regularly on WordPress. During that time, my life went through some transformational changes, some painful, all beautiful. Poetry has always remained a backdrop to these changes, and now it has come forward once again. For how long? I don’t know. However, I do know I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. I think that’s true for all areas of life. Don’t you?

My most recent poems are pictured above. I post daily on Instagram, so come see me there when you can.

All the best,

Jeff

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #beauty, #despair, #hope, #illusion, #imagination, #life, #loss, #pain, #reality

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 7:00 am on May 15, 2026
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Surrender

I am desperation’s surrender—silence.  

Broken Promises

I spent an eternity in love’s shadow, brokenness. Painful aberrations,  noiseless hallways and nightmare promises—fear. Emerging into being, trauma-trapped body remembers the feeling.

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #body, #depression, #desperation, #feelings, #hope, #love, #nightmare, #pain, #poem, #silence, #surrender, #trauma

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 6:20 pm on May 11, 2026
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Rain

still rain shapes silence

subtle forms shift in shadows

stark supposition 

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #know, #life, #meaning, #mystery, #rain, #realization, #shadows, #silence, #stillness, #unknown

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 2:29 pm on April 25, 2026
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Soft Centers

it is seen through sensitivity.

rough edges, soft centers—

twilighted. shadows burn, 

under the weight of the world

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #darkness, #depression, #happiness, #life, #light, #love, #poem, #sensitivity, #shadowlight

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 1:10 pm on April 25, 2026
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Chicory Seed

a shadow-shaped mystery

singed edges, a burnt hollow—

I am the chicory-shaded seed 

of sorrow

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #death, #growth, #learning, #light, #love, #pain, #poem, #shawdows

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 8:07 pm on April 21, 2026
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Alienation and Anomie

I am an alienated fragment 

adrift and alone. 

A tormented existence—enclosed

in mercy’s sins, I pray

the anomie will release me from 

this. 

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #alienation, #anomie, #depression, #life, #love, #pain

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 5:15 pm on April 17, 2026
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Whimsical Forms Imbued

I am a presence bound illusion. Sorrow’s silence and frailty’s promise. Colorful revelations are nested in morbid fascination—pain. Love’s drama, nocturnal and natural. I am a performance of unity. Whimsical forms are meaning imbued names— destiny. A surreal experience and home to the ultimate reality. 

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #happiness, #humanity, #illusion, #life, #love, #pain, #poem, #reality, #solace, #surrender

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 7:04 pm on April 16, 2026
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I Step Into A Wish

I am on a quest for happiness. Pain,

the contours of skin—you

remind me solace returns anew. 

The center, a locus of control unmade, fragile and fraught. I 

step into a wish, protection’s umbrella—

cleansing. Humanity’s sins, I struggle 

to be me again. 

©Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

 Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #happiness, #humanity, #life, #love, #pain, #peace, #poem, #solace, #wish

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 8:34 pm on April 13, 2026
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Boundlessly Episodic

I am meaning, subject in object. The background to the silently chaotic. Mystery’s presence of the boundlessly episodic. 

©Jeff Flesch 

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#poetry, #chaos, #destiny, #illusion, #life, #love, #pain, #poem, #reality, #silence

Unknown's avatar Jeff Flesch 7:32 pm on April 13, 2026
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Shadow Sky

I am a sky tinged in shadows. The absence of color, a cloud’s pain— gentle tears with whitewashed edges. A horizon’s bleakness and a feelings abyss. It is the sorrow of love, my final wish. 

©Jeff Flesch 

#1 Amazon bestselling poet –  Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press

#depression, #healing, #heart, #introspection, #life, #light, #love, #pain, #poem, #revelation