Past Midnight (Letters from You)

a sonnet to letter writing

I made it past midnight

By just a tick or two

Something that lately

Isn't easy to do

But I'd gotten out

Some letters from you

That I didn't put down

Till all were read through

So, I stayed past midnight

By just a tick or two

By getting into you

Like I used to do...

By reading a few

Old letters from you

Jim Lonsdale Poetry 2025

Reviews

[Michael Sun Bear]

Jim, you hit a sore spot in me with this one. After my first wife died, I was given a large sealed envelope fat with contents unknown. I was up past midnight, 2 am found me sitting on the sofa weeping, letters scattered on the floor around me. They were love letters written back and forth between Mary Anne and her first husband, who she never told me of. I still have them, stuffed in a bottom drawer, but have never read them since.

[Desert Knave]

Thanks for commenting. Yeah, I can see how that would be hard to deal with. ~Jim

[Grumpie]

I liked this a lot. Thank you for sharing!

[Desert Knave]

Thank you so much. ~Jim