Some lives are leafy limbs
compelling eyes to gaze at them
to acknowledge their convulsive beauty
Naïve in their baseless joy
they reign
a scant and unremembered season
then die
having never truly lived
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“Yet they live forever…”
Beautiful Mitch.
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Ohh , delicious -permit me to use the word- delicious poem
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Marvellous poem: every word compelling; meaning, profound. So gorgeous. Sigh.
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Sigh back. Thank you.
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This invokes the spirit of life it conjures the battle between will and strife some respond others fade out of sight. Inspiring Mitch
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Thanks, Sandy. And amen.
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I had to reread this a couple times, but then aaaah…I see. Good one.
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Thank you.
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Enjoyed every thoughtfully chosen word, Mitch. Wonderful metaphor.
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Thank you (I’m afraid after all this time I still don’t know your name–no pressure; I know some bloggers prefer to write anonymously).
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Meredith. 😊
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Meredith. I’ll try and remember that (I don’t think it’s mentioned on your blog). It’s lovely, old-fashioned sort of name.
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I liked this. There is a saying I use to explain the idea. Humility exposes the background that is beautiful and yet complimentary.
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Precisely!
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Well spoken Mitch. Real life is always beyond the physical world.
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Says the man who’s dedicated to capturing the physical world on film. ;>) But who always sees it properly, I think, as a metaphor for something more.
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Thank you very much. I hope you are right. 😊
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I love how honest this is in thought and emotion. I find a lot of my own poetry seems contrived when I read it back to myself later, or not simple enough to really evoke or bring light to anything. This one is very “clean”.
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Thank you, Jordyn. It’s an honor, in this case, to be declared “clean.”
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