If I could I would gather all the words from the wild, pick them like berries    and press them into these pages to    bleed them, beautiful, into my notebook I would chase syllable streams that refresh dry banks and stop. at the quarry where I will cut confused hands on stone,    going through the  ruins of my     dreams and I will bottle my cries to    pour over the altar of my art If I could I would answer the laughter in the wind, unravel the rhetoric of the rain,    and walking dirt and gravel transcribe    the vernacular of city streets I would record every note of joy from children and undo the silence of grandmothers,    ask them  about dogged hope I would keep on west of my despair, right through the dying sun and spell    the sunrise as it lights land and sea    in the genius of resurrection.
I Would Gather All The Words
If I could I would gather all the words from the wild, pick them like berries    and press them into these pages to    bleed them, beautiful, into my notebook I would chase syllable streams that refresh dry banks and stop. at the quarry where I will cut confused hands on stone,    going…
225 responses to “I Would Gather All The Words”
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This is a really great poem. Thank you.
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Thanks so much, Dave. I enjoyed writing it. =)
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I love the pace and tone of this poem. I especially like “chase syllable streams”. Really beautiful!
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Thanks! I’m pleased the pace and tone struck you.
Xx
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Truly beautiful similes and metaphors!
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Thank you, Beth. =)
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I looked for a link to reblog this, but did not find it.
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Very sweet. It’s there. Maybe you’re reading off the homepage? Just tap the title of the post to open it up full screen. You’ll see the reblog button on the top bar. Thanks so much for the support, Beth.
Diana
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Thanks! You are a good teacher!
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So sweet! I appreciate the reblog.
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On my b’day, next week, a post should come out to help you understand why this poem touched me so deeply.
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Let me know here when you put it out. You can’t know how busy I am. I’m behind in getting back to readers and have been fielding responses on several posts at once this wk.
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Diana….this is so exquisitely written and powerful. The imagery is phenomenal. Thank you for starting my day off so beautifully 🙂
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I am really grateful for the heartfelt encouragement, CC. I am pleased to know how you felt. I don’t take your support for granted.
Blessings,
Diana
I enjoyed the images and emotions and tastes (“…pick them like berries…”). Well done. Thank you.
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Many thanks, my friend. I appreciate the specific feedback, Paul.
Really beautiful imagery. I have so many lines that I love that I can’t even pick. Thunderous and sumptuous words.
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*Big smile*
Love the thunderous and sumptuous.
Always nice to shake things up – in a way people welcome.
Thx so much, dear friend.
A poem that speaks its rhythm, imagery and sound with words that chime with the confidence of the carefully and beautifully chosen. I loved reading it. Thank you.
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I appreciate the thoughtful feedback, Julia. Because I do choose every word very carefully.
*Squeeze hand*
Reblogged this on MULIEBRAL VIEWPOINT: and commented:
Sometimes another person can “say it better” than you can. This poem illustrates that very well. Beth
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IF I could hold this bouquet forever and cherish it’s aroma forever as I delight in your dancing, your living, your wooing…thank you is not enough.
As usual, your beautiful poem arrived in time to comfort me right after receiving some startling news that a loved one died unexpectedly. I could feel my pain articulated in your words, and it helped. Thanks.
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Oh wow. Chills! Augh, my deepest condolences, E. I feel anything else I say will fall short.
Love,
me
I loved it. Thank you for your words.
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=) I am grateful for the faithful read. And enjoy every visit (of my own).
“undo the silence of grandmothers”. You are an astute observer. Simply beautiful!
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Thanks, Jeanne. You’ve been awesome, walking with me all this time.
I
appreciate
you.
breathtakingly spectacular!
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lol thanks.
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I know… just typing it like it comes to me! Lol.
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Thanks for sharing your heart with the music of words.
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Thank you for tuning in, Sam. =)
(Thought of you today, on the road, after posting.)
“Undo the silence of grandmothers…….” such a wistful and heartfelt cry. There was not one syllable (or streams of syllables) that did not pull on my heart strings.
After a sad night your beautiful thoughts this morning were balm to my soul. Thank you.
I will be reblogging your words on KenMaursCorner.
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Thank you, Maureen. I appreciate the hearty feedback. And I am saddened to hear it was a difficult night. I really do hope this wknd finds you with a sweeter song.
And I had turned in last night by the time you sent me the recipe: thanks.
Reblogged this on KenMaursCorner and commented:
IF : Such a small word and so many resounding thoughts
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Oh my, this is absolutely stunning! I will reblog this on my site tomorrow. I pray you have a very blessed Easter Sabbath! Hugs, Natalie 🙂
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=) You dear woman!
Bear hug.
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This is beautiful!
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Thank you, Andy. And I appreciate the follow. Welcome to this awesome community.
Diana
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Thank you!
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Touched deeply by the embrace of your very heart felt words…this is a truly soulful poem! could feel and relate to the inner cries shared by your heart mind and soul. I always love the messages you share and also all you write but I love the magnificence I embraced tonight…my eyes filled with some tears…because of the poems deepness…spiritual hugs, love and blessings to you always my sister…may your Easter Sunday be beautifully blessed for you and your family!
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Many thanks, my friend. I am honored for the tearfulness. I’d mulled this one over a while – actually, as I do most of my poems, and it almost seemed to write itself.
Happy Easter.
Love,
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I did that also for a Easter Poem I shared today…I kept trying to write it and improve it, but I kept on tearing up, I felt the pain, the sadness, it happens most of the time I write about the Lord…there has been a feeling from when I was young, that I have always known him before…so I shared the feelings of His death and rising, and it came like I was there.
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“there has been a feeling from when I was young, that I have always known him before”
That is incredible.
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Undulating and flowing with delicious imagery, Diana. Oh how I wish my notebook to be stained beyond repair with the wild words. Your own words are the balm to a fiery evening spirit. Thank you for this….spellbinding.
Blessings,
Paul
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*Big smile* With such generous input, who would not say it is GREAT to have you back, Paul? HEeee’s back! Thank you so much for the flattering commendation, my friend.
Grateful,
Diana
So beautiful, and it is the “genius of the resurrection” the make all the incredible words you wrote prior worth it all. Simply a stunning post as we move through this weekend. Thank you!
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Thank yOu for your presence.
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Had to add that as you say it is the last line that makes the rest worth it, so it is the resurrection of Christ that overshadows all our travail. Apostle Paul did say if Christ did not rise from the dead we should be more pitied than any other for believing what we do. Thanks again for your thoughtful presence.
Your poem is like music – so beautiful, so powerful. So glad I read it 🙂
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As a musician, I am very pleased with the analogy, M. I hadn’t intended it to be musical, but am happy the poem found its own rhythm and melody. Appreciate your time.
Xx
HW
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What an incredible poem – so appropriate for this Easter weekend! Thanks for sharing it Diana 🙂
Beautiful words!
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Nice to hear from you, Cindi. Thanks!
beautiful! 🙂
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Thanks, Jackie. =)
I love your words, Diana, especially…”I will bottle my cries to
pour over the altar of my art.”
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Aww, I appreciate your sharing the part that struck its chord, Shirley. Appreciate your staying with me.
Xxx
D.
Very beautiful poem, bravo, touching! Good late night, my friendships, Gigi 🙂
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Thank you, G. =)
Diana, I love your poetry. I can’t always find a “hook” to get into someone’s poems, but yours invite me right in.
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Aww, wow. Thanks, J.
Xxxx!
Written like a true lover of words.
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Happy Easter Diana
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Thanks. Hope you had a wonderful day. Ours is a living hope!
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Sure is. Our Easter is really different here than what I’m used to in Canada. I’m used to it now though.
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Different – how?
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Well, in Canada all the kids look for chocolate easter eggs and bunnies and all sorts of sugary candy in the morning. Then at night there’s a big Easter dinner, usually Turkey or ham. With guests and the table all done up and all.
Here they don’t go on Easter egg hunts and look for sugary stuff hidden throughout the house. They do, however buy these easter eggs that are so overpriced. Usually theme eggs. Have you seen Talking Violins post on the Brazilian Easter? There’s a picture on it with the hanging Easter eggs in a store.
There’s no big dinner either, unless they’re really devout Catholics. Then they have a big dinner with fish and regional foods to break lent.
We just went to church as a family, came home and made a regular lunch, I made my own dark chocolate easter eggs (not nearly as big as some in the stores). I wrapped Caue’s in ‘Cars’ cellophane wrap and Hannah’s in ‘Princess’ cellophane wrap. Of course my mom wanted me to get something for the kids from her. I couldn’t bring myself to buying expensive sugary chocolate eggs so I got them both a little toy gift and a little something extra.
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Wow. To everything, the traditional dinner, and what you did for your littles. Such a great mom. I just ride on the coattails of what our social groups and church do (euphemism for a tired NoThiNg). My position (eh hem, excuse) is that it doesn’t take much to please kids – unless we spoil them. Giving them special traditions to remember can be a different story, and I really lack in this area. I’m also not the one to get updates on American traditions from. Our Kor-Amer friends celebrate all holidays with family but not having grown up with much tradition, my hubby and I also don’t have family near so I’d now have to bend over backward to “do something” for Easter. You remind me that I cAn bake my gl-free stuff, as my son’s been asking. Sunday school is special that day with activities and an egg hunt. I just highlight (to my son) what Easter is really about.
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Oh no, I didn’t do all that. That’s what happens in Canada normally. We didn’t do that here in Brazil. I just made some dark chocolate eggs for my kiddies and got them a small toy from my mom. No big dinner, no easter egg hunt. I can’t stand loading my kids, nor myself, nor anyone with tons of sugar.
We also went to church in the morning.
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I meant the choc eggs u made ’em. =)
Ohhh, hehehe.
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Diana, my dear, what a beautiful poem! 🙂 Hugs! xx
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Oh hoah! I did something right to hear from you in a comment. Ha ha ha. Love it. Thanks, M. If I could paint my words nearly as evocatively as you do on canvas, I’ll keep afloat out here. =)
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Please forgive me, my dear Diana, but exactly because I don’t have the ability to paint with words as you do [beautifully so], I find it hard to comment especially poetry! So I either silently like or comment laconically! 🙂 xxxx
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Lol. I got a good feel for the way your brain works (and doesn’t, if I may), from that interview you did with aFrankle where you shared you don’t talk much. I’m familiar with learning styles. You are one visual person. =) (But don’t cheat yourself of too much credit, either. I’ve not only seen but read your posts.)
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…believe me, the 10-19 words in those posts take much longer than a sketch!!! 😉 🙂 😆
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lol! remember, i could nOt sketch like that. =)
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Wow this is just beautiful. The imagery is superb! I actually went back and read it a few times. Not because I didn’t understand it but because I wanted to devour the words again and agian. Brilliant 🙂
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That
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Thanks for letting me know.
I think that a reader reread it like that is among the highest praise a writer can hear.Really appreciate the support.
HW
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Nice.
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Thanks for your time. =)
You are a true word crafter. Beautifully expressed!
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EFFUSive praise, this time? LOL THANK you, my friend.
*Bear hug*
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Rarely do we find poets who are so consistent in their resonance. Who are able to play with words and form and images and turn them into something new and fresh. Holistic Wayfarer, you’ve done it again. So beautiful. Thank you.
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One of the comments I must confess I am most proud of. I am saving your feedback on a separate list for my son to see when he is old enough to write serious poetry. THANK you for the commendation, support, and reblog.
HW
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You have no idea how humbled I am. You are an inspiration…keep writing…it is one of those wonderful things that remind us of what beauty, humanity is capable of.
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This is both brilliant and beautiful.
Blessings,
Theresa
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I so appreciate the faithful read and the commendation, Theresa. Xxx
Beautiful words and prose Diana, thank you.
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Thanks so much for taking a moment. =)
Stunning prose. 🙂
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Grateful. I hope your sun has come through the last month.
Xxxxx
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🙂 Thank you.
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This is beautiful. I get it.
Also, “and undo the silence of grandmothers,
ask them about dogged hope”
This speaks to me in how when my grandmother was dying the other year and she suddenly opened everything up and told us Everything she wanted to get out. She even recorded personal voice messages and wrote personal written messages. I have yet to listen to or read either (too scared/painful). Perhaps it’s time to.
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Augh. !!!
I followed your comment with a hint of a smile in my eyes. It got better and better as you spoke of Grandma. And then: “I have yet to listen to or read either (too scared/painful). Perhaps it’s time to.”Augh! Got me all emotional, dude. Gosh, let me know if you get to any of it soon.
(And how dya know I was thinking of you?) The VIP thing.
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Ha, sorry to upset you, bro! when I wrote that I was slightly worried that I’d disappoint you. I guess my fears were justified. I apologize. 🙂
You don’t want to know how long I’ve held off on listening/reading. I could say I have good reasons, but I don’t think you’d accept my excuses. I’ll keep you posted.
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Ha ha: bro??? No, no, you didn’t disaPPoint, silly. Of course I understand. I was simply hurting with you, sympathizing that it would hurt so much to go near it. Silly.
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Lol! Just messing with you! Ha, You’d be surprised how often I’m called ‘silly’. Seriously, my Gma was the best person who ever lived. I know you feel me that it’s difficult to listen to her ‘voice’ from “beyond the grave”. It’s hard for me to even type that last sentence. Thank you for understanding. I thought the world of her. Thanks again for your poem.
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‘In the genius of resurrection’…as with the second to last paragraph, I couldn’t have read a more beautiful, soulful and heart-written poem for Easter. I carry with me ‘I would record every note of joy from children…’
I hope you had a truly blessed Easter my friend… 🙂
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Thanks, S. Always nice – and helpful as a writer – to hear back the parts that spoke to a reader. As to Easter, I hold onto my Living Hope.
Luv,
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Amen 🙂 x
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Beautiful poem, I particularly loved the first verse.
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Thanks for the specific feedback, Andrea. I’ve appreciated the faithful read.
Xxx
Diana
Like a fountain pen in the hands of a skilled calligrapher, you have worked words beautifully to festoon this beautiful metaphor! Each stanza complements the ones next to it perfectly. I just loved pouring over the detail of this one, Diana!
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Many thanks, M, for the effusive praise – almost a poem itself.
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Anything less wouldn’t have done your work justice! 🙂
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Aww. I came back to the computer to say I’ve been called an artist and a painter. But calligrapher…..you take the cake today. =) Get some rest, buddy. Thanks again for your time.
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Oh I really enjoyed this and your style of writing this poem, quite the visual and profound. Have a great day and thanks! peace tone
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I appreciate the heartfelt input and the follow, Tone. Every post is a labor of love and your time and praise are my reward. Welcome to this special community of thinkers. Would love to talk again.
Diana
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Would love to chat
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I’m here. =) Though I may be pulled away soon ’til Sunday. Thanks for the follow. Welcome to this special community.
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Don’t know why you’re not on my Stats list of follows, though I’m on your sidebar. Hmm.
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wordpress has issues some times, technical i mean. I can also be reached at tonekinch@gmail.com and on fb tone kinchloe…..i like how you write and the subjects you choose. have a great wkend!
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My contact’s on the sidebar and in the Join Me in the Race…post next to my About if you have anything in particular on your mind. Thanks for the props.
Happy blogging. =)
HW
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Beautiful, simply beautiful!
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Thanks for the heartfelt praise and the follow, Charles. =) Welcome to this special community of thinkers.
HW
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Diana
I can’t help being marveled at the depth around here…How come we are meeting just now?
The About page is glowing with promises of what to expect…
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LOL! I must say this is one feedback I savor, Charles. Rumble sounds cool!
Xxx
Diana
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Charles, I well may be wrong, but thought this might interest:
http://holisticwayfarer.com/2014/04/05/the-race-black-american-in-california-part-9/
No obligation to respond, esp if I was wrong.
Thanks for your time. Hope to talk again.
=)
HW
Diana, I’m better late than never and am so glad I popped in to read this poem…it is beautiful beyond words and your word play is truly amazing…thank you for sharing! Lauren 🙂
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All I can say is thanks for the high praise, L. I can feel your heart. Bless you, my friend.
Xxx
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You’re very welcome! xx
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“unravel the rhetoric of the rain” blew a fuse when I read these amazing words. Masterful poem!
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Blew a fuse. I’ll take the blame on that one. =) Thx so much for the effusive praise, S. Appreciate your taking a moment.
There is no ‘if’ about it – this poem succeeds in fulfilling the dream. Perfect work.
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Well, SoMeBoDy made my Ace List. You grace this piece with high praise – poetry all its own, Mike. I have appreciated the ongoing support.
HW
It’s hard to come up with the right words to praise such an evocative poem. It’s just perfect, I don’t know what else to say… except, I’m glad I got the chance to read it, so thank you for sharing.
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Hard to come up with anything better than THANK you. =)
Xx
HW
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