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#2 Listen
2. Listen “Listen carefully,”they tell me, but each day Ican only hear less. Elizabeth L. Crawford 10/31/21 Note: Have had a bad ear infection for weeks. This one is true…Image is one of my designs created witha kaleidoscope app. and … Continue reading →
A Small Spark
She remembers finding, long ago, that small spark within. How she learned to breathe slowly, to feed it. How it grew to become light and warmth that filled her. And best of all, how others were drawn to it, to … Continue reading →
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Tagged breathe, feed, learn, Light, listen, others, remembering, spark, warmth
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A Journey Stone
NaPoWriMo 2020: Day 14 She emerges from darkness that named her. This woman resting against wild cat that protects her. When he speaks, she listens. Leans into his words, making them her own. Forming them into poems, hoping that others … Continue reading →
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Tagged darkness, journey stones, listen, poems, protection, wild cat, woman
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Silence
For Creativity Challenge Day 39: Silence http://1sojournal.wordpress.com Silence The heart has reasons that reason doesn’t understand. ___Blaise Pascal Silence sometimes speaks. Quiet yourself. Listen to your heart beat. Sound of life. A gift given. Once. Hear blood as it pumps … Continue reading →
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Tagged Blaise Pascal, creativity challenge, gift, heartbeat, joy, listen, purpose, reason, silence, song, without sound
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Another Fibonacci Sequence
For Creativity Challenge Day 29: Protect http://1sojournal.wordpress.com Another Fibonacci Sequence Was taught, when young, that my words held little meaning, were of no value to others. Then found that words are magic, able to change meanings in hardened hearts, on … Continue reading →
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Tagged breathe, creativity challenge, hardened hearts, hope, listen, magic, meaning, protect, words
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Sit. Walk. Run. Fly
For The Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: Wordle #160 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ glass, dreams, rub, settle, axe, shattering, sky, clumsy, vanish, land, name, listen Sit, Walk, Run, Fly Sit with that seed of a dream. Let it settle deep inside. Listen to its whispers. … Continue reading →
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Tagged dream, generations, listen, Poetry Pantry, Poets United, song, The Sunday Whirl, video, wordle
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At Fifty
This poem was written almost thirteen years ago, on my fiftieth birthday. It was an exceptional experience because it came with such ease and was written in under ten minutes. That is not the usual. It will probably remain one of … Continue reading →
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Tagged child, demon offspring, eagle, elegance, fast, fifty, final flight, flow, Jeremiah, Lilith, listen, Lucille Clifton, North Wisconsin hillbilly, poem, Queen of Heaven, snow-covered mountains, Tree of Life, voice like sun, writing, years, zenith
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Music With Memory
When you gonna make up your mind, When you gonna love you as much as I do? When you gonna make up your mind, Cause things are gonna change, so fast… __from Winter by Tori Amos* And change they did, … Continue reading →
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Tagged change, distant friend, echo, fathers, gentle love, gift of song, grief, haunt, inevitable crash landing, listen, lyrics, memory, music, pain, reminiscing, taunt, time passing, Tori Amos, Winter, words and meanings
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