tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72452938783412711152024-03-05T12:11:56.307-08:00A Dwelling by The Sea POETRY AND STORIES by Kathy Reed, writer of 'Down the Eyrie Road' blog.
Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.comBlogger562125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-79154107220254231892020-04-06T04:04:00.000-07:002020-08-07T04:06:04.632-07:00Long ago<br />
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Long ago<br />
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We played in the sun<br />
when dreams once danced in my chest,<br />
a long time ago.<br />
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The calm sea listened<br />
when my salty tears first fell<br />
in cruel undertows.<br />
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I pleaded for help<br />
as I turned to storm watching,<br />
changing horizons.<br />
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Waves voices told me,<br />
“The stranger who was your self,<br />
you will love again.”<br />
<br />Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-87674396449608677472020-04-06T01:34:00.000-07:002020-08-07T04:06:04.746-07:00Enchanted April<b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">April’s enchantment </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>courageous blades of grass </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> reach for sun stolen.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Long roots explore rhythms </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> of gullies and hills</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Garden scents breeze through </span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> swaying willow chains.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Kaleidoscopic raindrops </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>hammering rains break</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> for distant whipper-wills</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>grief and joy are balanced,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> delicately woven.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Turbulent streams flowing </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> through me distill.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Seasonal mist heals over...</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> Earth’s damaged veins.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>In adoring champagne light,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> flowers open.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #503c22; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>Spring quivers in it’s desire </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Hearts together break free...</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> from shackles that remain,</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Finally, I find my wayward </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> windmills.</b></span>Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-23312966196415542842019-06-18T15:12:00.075-07:002020-08-07T04:06:04.860-07:00The Abundance of June<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">June is abundant in all possibilities </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">for global peace and caring. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">It’s the best time to dream </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">in colors of Tuscany,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">throw away any neuroses.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">become all we can be.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"> June brings warmer rain,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">for running barefoot again.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Flowers exploding in full bloom.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Believe in Unicorns and rainbows.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hearts not broken croon,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">yellow monarchs swoon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Say only what you mean to say,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Express yourself in every way.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The sun will block out all neuroses.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Be a little bit crazy,</div><div style="text-align: center;">give a name to the moon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Unchain your melody</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Ride a bike smiling,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">discover </span><span style="background-color: white;">your </span><span style="background-color: white;">Huckleberry Finn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Love being all you can be,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">live audaciously.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Find your bliss,</div><div style="text-align: center;">live life more fully,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">climb the Mountain again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Rows of small white clouds fended off the heat. We followed a dirt path to the sky blue lake's edge where Indians often caught and smoked their fish.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Picking and eating berries,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her reclining silhouette looks up to heaven</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">draped in a gown of multi-hued greens,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">she sleeps eternally above the golden valley</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hills of smoldering spruce form her breasts,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> new growth where her flowing lava hair</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">once was quarried.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Indian legend says she died of an aching heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gods fought for her pure love</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">yet she lived for no other than her young brave</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">echoes of Romeo and Juliette,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">immortal mountains make a true love's grave</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> while hints of lime and magenta foliage </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">finding shelter in her terrain,</span></div>
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This photo was taken the other night by a local photographer. Many captured similar results of the sunset all around the Puget Sound area. It fits nicely the rubiat form of poetry we were prompted to write today at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/">dversepoets</a>.com</div>
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You came to me in a dream indigo,<br />
a timeless honor from long, long ago.<br />
I, wearing a primrose evening gown,<br />
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Through furrows of aquamarine and bordeaux,<br />
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We royally stole the starlight's show,<br />
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Before early black, we boogied til sundown,<br />
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<i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">revolving doors of full blown joy and pain.</b></i><br />
<i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Tangled in life's elegant human chain,</b></i><br />
<i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">bloodied, tested by snags along the way.</b></i><br />
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<i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On bitter wings we lift to fly away,</b></i><br />
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<i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Lost in the amethyst eye of the storm,</b></i><br />
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<i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">we follow our one reappearing star.</b></i><br />
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<i><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">the love inside through billions of light years,</b></i><br />
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Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-66715760954585293162019-01-08T14:47:00.001-08:002020-08-07T04:06:05.548-07:00Art on My Wall<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></b>
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">This basket creation recalls a primitive time,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">embedded in my heart of hearts,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">It signifies a previous era,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">and even</b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> though I was not there,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">only a twinkle in my parents' eyes,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">it yet imparts</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">exist in a future sense.</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Another tense,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">a timelessness.</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Why does it impress me so,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">when in time, I too,</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Perhaps, to know that I am,</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I am immortalized.</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></b>Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-32499683730402984092019-01-08T03:28:00.000-08:002020-08-07T04:06:05.661-07:00A Patch of Blue<div>
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gulls still nest in the thicket on the lane by the old beach house, the walls wherein I spent my childhood days. The cherry orchard muffles the sound of waves. Each year I return to the small beach town and revisit the past and restore my soul. </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On this particular day, morning fog parts to a patch of blue. I am exhilarated as I walk the four blocks to buy coffee.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">It rarely snows at the ocean, but in January the ubiquitous wetness and cold combine with gale winds to create a blistering sleet. Most days are marked by dark clouds meeting the horizon, the sea and sky and pavement, all darker shades of cheerless grey. Of all the hours in a day, only a few are actual daylight, so it might as well be night.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Sitting by a fire ablaze, open book on my lap, I see the hallway where we used to slide across the floor in stocking feet, the bench seat in which we used to hide. I see loved ones rapping on the door, arriving to welcoming arms. My senses are aroused by </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">familiar, easy surroundings, the fresh smell of linens on the beds, the reckless feel of gritty sand on the floor, and the sound of hungry birds calling overhead. </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Over time, one becomes set in his ways. January is full of the past, much in the present, and offers hints of the future.</b></div>
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<b>Long winter shadows </b></span><br /><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">slow dance in the candlelight.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Reverie is much sweeter </b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>when whispered assurances </b><b>unshiver the night</b><b>, </b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“it will be alright”.</b><br />
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<b>Fire kindled by innocent timber many </b></span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> years ago,</b><br /><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">honed within heart’s chamber,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">nurtured to grow,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">lingers still in its glowing embers.</b><br />
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<b>Love, worn and tested over time,</b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">From nothing’s morn </b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I watch the ins and outs of sandy bays</span></b></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and rock coves, </span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wade the shallow water of the Salish</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Sea,</span></b><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illuminated by the November moon.</span></b><br /><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every breath I take, step I take,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">prepares me for life without sun and water</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">untiI finally, I can let it be. </span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Earth is the apple of our eye,</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deserves so much </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more than</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wish my pet flavors, colors, </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This isn’t how it was meant to be, </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i style="background-color: #ffe599;">the pulsing globe is a mortal being.</i></b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sound of surf, </span></b><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the eagle’s wings,</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>the c</i></b></span></span><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hanging driftwood winds,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the November moon, all</span></b></div><div>
<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">take the pain from my swollen heart,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tend to the swelling </span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in my feet.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I re-read letters he wrote from the war</span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I </span></b><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">w</span></b><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ish I were </span></b><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a doctor o</span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">f pure magic.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'd s</span></b><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tring a necklace of </span></b><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sweet words </span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and tiny seashells,</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>scented </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>with</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i> Plumeria.</i></b></span></span></div><div>
<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to place </span></b><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">around his neck,</span></b></div><div>
<b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as a blessing, </span></b></div><div><b><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for all</span></b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i> I learned from him.</i></b></span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We would ride Pegasus </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intergalactic </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">winds</span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>She welcomes the shadowing rain,</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">a wide brimmed hat, no less</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">the sun on her face to remain.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">Since birth it's been her bane,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">causing undue duress.</b><br />
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<b>Though harmless and causing no pain,</b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">For his facial port wine stain,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">Gorbachev drew no disdain,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;">nor lack of confidence.</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">inclined to hide her face.</b><br />
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How I would like to see a normal face </b><br />
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instead of this political Frankenstein. </b><br />
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A false patriot disseminating hate,</b><br />
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he's loyal to only himself, his goldmine.</b><br />
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His conduct not based on love of country,</b><br />
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he mocks allies, castigates dissidents,</b><br />
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disturbs the peace unnecessarily.</b><br />
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Patriotism is oft misunderstood,</b><br />
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exploited to suspend people's happiness. </b><br />
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His charges of fake news beg for real truth.</b><br />
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we are waiting for his ship to come in.</b><br />
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We will rescue ourselves come November,</b><br />
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and he'll slip into darkness in the end.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>The Poetics prompt at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/">dversepoets</a> this week is to write about our name. From the Greek "Aikaterinë", to the French "Catherine", to the Gaelic "Caitlin", one can see how it was Anglicized again to Kathleen by the IrishEngish. Yeats penned a legend - a young Countess Cathleen offered her soul during a famine, in exchange for food for the starving, proving her courage.</b></span></div>
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Borne of the Middle Ages -</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Kathleen is an Irish lass,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>idealistic, intuitive,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>unpretentious,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>and a bit feisty,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>stubborn, alas,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>quick-tempered...</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Melancholy brown hair </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>bears tints of auburn</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>in the sun..</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>...common freckles sprout</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>within fair rosey cheeks</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>where tears frequently run.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Sometimes clairvoyant,</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>she converses with </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>leprechauns.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Her name translates to</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>unsullied purity and </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>innocence...and yet, </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>she can be pushed only so far.</b></span><br />
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She walks stone paths -</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>across green hills and valleys</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>by day...</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">through soft rainbows and</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">disappearing pots of gold </b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>She waits for arms to hold her</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>by the fire at night.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Her world is an Irish stew -</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>complicated</b></span><b>...for </b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>and sad at the same time...if</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>only she could recognize</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>... either she is successful</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>or, quite miserable.</b></span><br />
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A pioneer of sorts, </b></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>she </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>learned early </b></span><b>a smooth sea </b><br />
<b>never makes </b><b>a skillful sailer...</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Her heart is as slippery</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>as a bar of soap, </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>her armour made of</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>sacrificial linen and lace.</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">With an inner desire to inspire</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">others in a higher cause, </b><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>she likes to share views on </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>spiritual matters.</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Opera music </b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">is </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">carried out her frosted,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">snowflaked window...</b><b>and </b><br />
<b>from her garden </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">magic light </b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">from daffodils </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">shines </b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">back onto her </b><b>welcoming </b><br />
<b>hearth...</b><b>where she dreams of </b><br />
<b>white cliffs </b><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">and castles </b><br />
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">by the sea.</b><br />
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Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-31682338383062454222018-09-21T01:27:00.001-07:002020-08-07T04:06:06.346-07:00Fellini parade..<br />
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For Open Link Night, my response is to Tuesday's circus prompt. Instantly I thought of Fellini's movie, La Strada, with Anthony Quinn and Fellini's wife. I wanted to express how fond I am of his work with a poem, not just a synopsis. <a href="https://dversepoets.com/">dversepoets</a><br />
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Townspeople gather<br />
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and his waif partner,<br />
perform under soft pink skies.<br />
Traveling circus of two,<br />
clown noses, drum beats,<br />
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meek foil to his brutish strength,<br />
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her purpose as wife.<br />
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Yet she he taunts and teases,<br />
abandons at night.<br />
Unknown to his foolish heart,<br />
she's admired by another<br />
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his desire till she is gone.<br />
Dreams sustained by a face round<br />
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Her childish loyalty is<br />
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the fantasy and magic,<br />
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on the empty windswept beach.<br />
Snow falls quietly<br />
on the ocean where<br />
there are no answers,<br />
he weeps<br />
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<br />Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-1228165320615635662018-09-06T17:35:00.001-07:002020-08-07T04:06:06.459-07:00A Gift That Keeps Giving<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">My house sat empty the </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">except for the baby grand.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">She stood alone</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">a handsome young man did say,</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;"> “May I play.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">He laid his hands on the keys,</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">and they became part of</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">his anatomy, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">fingertips penetrating </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">my soul.</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">Surrounded by soft, </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">rich tones, </b><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">acoustics I did not know </b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">A </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">warmth came over me,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">I admired his expertise and style,</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">he smiled, </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">swaying </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">side to side.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">Occasionally, </b><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;"> Kumbaya...</b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">I paused and thought.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">I could take lessons again,</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;"> take a few bows...</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">reap praises </b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">for </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">my </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">brilliant talent and poise. </b></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">But a deal was to be made.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">He embraced me briefly.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;"> I watched the truck </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(7, 55, 99);"><b>as </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #073763;">he smiled and waved goodbye.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">It was my pleasure</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;">to hear him play,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b style="background-color: white;"> more than enough for him to pay.</b></span></div>
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Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-25060451381453894742018-09-05T02:15:00.001-07:002020-08-07T04:06:06.573-07:00Crickets’ Song<br />
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Sun sneaks through the sky’s smoky haze.<br />
Clothes hang drowsily from the line.<br />
I’ve learned another lesson<br />
in an awkward snare of time.<br />
There's agony I had not foreseen<br />
in loneliness of aging.<br />
In deers' dark eyes, I see my tears.<br />
Crickits try, but cannot drown out my<br />
raging.<br />
It feels strange and wrong<br />
no one waits here for me.<br />
nowhere do I seem to belong.<br />
Feeling set apart is a deeply unsettling,<br />
drinking song.<br />
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Cut flowers from the garden drink<br />
their last drops of water.<br />
I taste the last of the strawberry lemonade.<br />
From the first pitch of baseball season<br />
to the whiffs of autum's vinegar air,<br />
unimagined events torment my mind.<br />
I've been a part of life's big picture<br />
unfolding,<br />
shared narratives from birth.<br />
I search in vain for familiar patterns<br />
of living.<br />
The wind that has sustained me<br />
and shook my soul with meaning<br />
blows in a different direction now.<br />
I'm not built to be broken<br />
yet another time.<br />
Too much is expected at this late date.<br />
I've started over again and again.<br />
The remaining chapters of my book<br />
suspended before me,<br />
pages of unfinished stories,<br />
blank canvases devoid of my joy,<br />
unwritten poems for lack of a muse.<br />
Alas, no one wants to hear it.<br />
I’m sorry for myself -<br />
for releasing unresolved pain,<br />
there is no coronation<br />
at the end of the parade.<br />
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<br />Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-79696821565379047092018-07-20T01:22:00.002-07:002020-08-07T04:06:06.687-07:00Every Day<span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b>
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Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-34438501966719936642018-07-16T15:35:00.003-07:002023-07-11T11:58:01.843-07:00Quadrille #60 Summer's Prize<div>
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<div><b style="background-color: white;">Sheep laze in shadows </b></div>
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Kathy Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326495504453579091noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245293878341271115.post-14211135150896107752018-06-25T19:58:00.000-07:002020-08-07T04:06:06.912-07:00Our Season of Discontent <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: #073763; color: white;">Do you, like me, feel their pain, empathize with the anguish felt by families fleeing tyranny, seeking better futures, whose lives have been suddenly altered, upended, their destinies violently and undeservedly rearranged?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #073763; color: white;">An intolerant administration willfully ignores traditional rules of law, robbing souls of their hopes for fulfillment, interrupting their children's universe, toying with their innocent, already precarious lives. Our democracy has flailed over and over again, perhaps reached a peak in a growth spurt with the election of a black man as president in 2008. Now, it appears all gained is spiraling down the drain. Surely, when so many suffer, tis the season of our deepest discontent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #073763; color: white;">Bleed from our democracy </span></div>
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<font face="times"><b style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><font color="#fce8b2">Whatever I Know to be True </font></span></b></font></span><font color="#fce8b2"><font face="times"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b>
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<b>Chartreuse willows softly sway</b></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> in my memories...</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Summertime June's</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> sunlit tapestries.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Shadows therein, hide</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> life's harshest realities</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b> of</b><b> inflicted pain.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b><b>Yet, straightforward oak's</b></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> heart...</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">like a good Cabernet,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> offers comfort,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> absorbs sorrow via</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> recycled rain.</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b><b>Then it's true...w</b><b>hen end </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b> meets</b><b> beginning...</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Use the name of a street for inspiration.</b></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>The taste of bitter chocolate brings back memories of unrequited love.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b>It happened that day, a matter of fact,</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>And if by some chance they again do meet,</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Will her sweet face melt his suit of armor,</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Will he rise above the urge to kiss her peppermint lips, fight off all elements resembling anything like love?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Would he find safety on the corner of 5th Avenue and Milky Way,</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Frank offers today's Haibun theme - "silent sounds". We are to comment on the internal chatter going on, which we hear, qbut has no sound.</span><br />
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As suspected, after cutting the cable tv cord, I feel differently. No more background noise leads me to live vicariously othes' lives via various favorite channels. Also, I am without wifi for a time. An introvert, I'm used to keeping myself company and entertain myself quite nicely. However, I am more acutely aware of nature alone interrupted by noises I make. Intangibly, sounds of silence are amplified in matters of the heart, the substance of every day living.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Untrained ears and eyes are struck by beating waves and sparkling reflections of sun on water. Profound changes are wrought by having fresh conversations with the wind, letting ideas drive through clogged highways of the brain, and sifting memories time and again.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">More pours in so more may be given out. The world didn't collapse.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I quiver as plum skies fall -</span><br />
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<b>My life is a spectacular muddle, in complete disarray. My thoughts jumbled, inspiration creates chaos sprung at light of day. I'm accustomed to confusion, disorder, immense imblogio. Most disturbing, I've elevated the tangled mess of my state of affairs to an art, but it's me.</b><br />
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