David Dephy [Georgia / USA]

 

 

As Our Breath
 
Each word, silent light—
sightless, we reach through the dark
with fingers for rays.
 
What if we sense our years as our own breath?
Perhaps impermanence will compel us to leave
memories behind?
 
Perhaps we carry them into the future?
And try to stay alive and smile after hopeless days’ cry.
Alive, as the sea mile across the ocean of solitude.
 
What is not good for the ocean cannot be good for the drop.
 
                                           (January 28, 2026) 
 
 
Where Another Story Begins
 
Every century leaves something unsaid.
Even a millennium cannot speak it fully.
What remains unspoken does not change —
it lives in the silence between words,
where another story begins.
 
Pearls rest in your silence—
words drifting through deep currents,
trusting time to speak.
 
Silence between words is a gate
to your heart. The only way.
The only door.
 
                 (February 25, 2026) 
 
 
New York Wind
 
Heart of the wind sings—
deep within, it shows your soul,
you, untethered, free.
 
A flower’s fragrance—
given freely, no return,
the world’s secrets flow on.
 
                   (May 28, 2026)
 

 
Author’s Bionote:
 
*David Dephy is an award-winning Georgian-American poet, novelist, and multimedia artist. He is the founder of Poetry Orchestra. Named Poet-in-Residence for Brownstone Poets for 2024-2026, his poetry was sent to the Moon in 2025 by NASA, Lunar Codex, and Brick Street Poetry. Dephy was exiled from his native country, Georgia, and granted indefinite political asylum in the U.S. With support from organizations such as the Artistic Freedom Initiative and PEN America, he secured asylum and reunited with his family in the U.S. His recent books include Gemini Touch (novella, Westbrae Literary Group, 2026) and Rays Never Were So Near as Now (poetry, Westbrae Literary Group, 2025). He lives in New York and works as an Art Teacher at the New York School of Art and Philosophy.