Unseen – 31st January 2026

~ shaun tenzenmen

my

etchings,

often seen,

wait in my room;

fingers gently trace along the edges….



….a long soft sigh often requires tissue.

a tear drop fell.

those etchings

were not

seen.

Shared with W3 #196 – suggestive tetractys

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Philosophy As Medicine Of The Soul

When the pressures of our lives
start to set our minds adrift
Recognised when to tap the brakes
and return to philosophy for a lift

40 thoughts on “Unseen – 31st January 2026”

  7. You’ve turned the euphemism into something touching. Love it.

    (Seeing your comment to Elizabeth, I couldn’t resist looking up its origins. According to one site I read, the phrase was first used in an Alfred Hitchcock film, Blackmail. So, there you go!).

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  8. I was interested in the origin of the old etchings line myself and when I found out Dashiell Hammett used it in his The Thin Man in 1934 I guessed that is where it really got popularized.

    Nicely done, Shaun!

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    1. The second part of your comment is interesting and someone else mentioned a similar feeling. It’s a different take on how I intended it to be.

      My idea was that the encounter was successful but of course, there never were any etchings…

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