Nostalgia for primordial places to which we can’t return;
for long lost times.  For things that might have stood but never were;
for lost loves and loves that might have been.

Echoes from long lost places in our souls for which we mourn.

Wind and rocks and waves.  Trees and cliffs, flowers and blades of grass.
Willows o’ the-wisp.
Omnipresent nowheres lying in wait.

Ubiquitously melancholic whispers yearning wistfully for a home that never was.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2023; all rights reserved.  Inspiration thanks to Carl Butler of the Dark Poetry Society.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution. Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen).  Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales.  He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review, available at Substack.com, a commentator on Radio Guasca FM, and an occasional contributor to the regional magazine, el Observador.  He has academic degrees in political science (the Citadel), law (St. John’s University), international legal studies (New York University) and translation and linguistic studies (the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies).  However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta and cosmogony.  He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.