a friendly reminder for Monday poets
You know those words you scratched out today?
That poem?
The graphemes and phonemes that spellbound you with their call & response
and became a tent revival on a smouldering summer night…
Or did you think them dull? Paint slowly chipping away from a rusted handrail in a strip mall parking lot, watching a wilting in real time…
No matter how you feel about them, that poem, those words, just as you laid them down –
No human being has ever done that before.
Never in the whole history of everything.
Not the way you have,
not with that heartbeat
not with that tear
Just you.
It could only have been you.
Your perfect fingerprint left on the windows of eternity as you peek through worlds
Just you, beautiful you.
(so give yourself a break)
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A message we should all take to heart. Thank you for writing this
Thank you π
Very nice – and priceless for us poets!
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Great pep talk for poets! Truth!
I agree, and right on time!
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Wonderful way to change our perspective for a Monday!
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I never know what lines are going to be significant to other people. Sometimes, the ones that make me cringe the most, are the ones that other people relate to.
I know what you mean- I feel so honored when anyone connects with anything I write, but it’s often not in the ways I hoped/ expected. Sometimes others see things in my lines that I didn’t, and that feels like magic.
Beautiful words of encouragement. Love “never in the whole history of everything.”
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Deeply felt and cherished this
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I find I always hit a couple of slumps in the course of this month. I just pulled out of one, but this poem will be good to back to when the next slump hits. Thank you for this!
Thanks!
A good mantra, beautifully written.
Especially love:
Your perfect fingerprint left on the windows of eternity as you peek through worlds
Thank you π