You say that others’ mistakes can’t teach.
Time is cruel and doesn’t cure.
May I help you? I’m not really sure
but I promise to listen to your speech.
You say that darkness is the brightest light,
that the loudest scream is mute…
I nod. I don’t argue with the whiteness of soot
and the preeminent grandeur of blight.
You shout and whisper. You laugh and cry.
My task is to put a kettle on fire.
You run round the room like a gyre.
I take cups from the shelf and slice up a pie.
You finish and go out into the night
with salutary lightness inside your chest.
…I don’t get the money from my nightly guest.
My royalties are my permission to write.
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2015
I love it 🙂
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Oh, thank you, Mariah!! ❤
I'm happy that I was able to bring a joy!
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it’s beautiful like you
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Oh, thank you, Stasia ❤
Your lovely compliment made me blush…
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that’s good to know that i managed to make unbolt the great blush (◕‿↼)
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ReallYYy… . . Its something like a rap. . .
I loved it!
Fantastic!
Thumbs Up!
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Thank you!
Thank you!
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Thank you!
(Does it sound like rap? Sing with me!) 😀
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Ooh yes, being a street singer, I always sing!
Thank You!
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Thank You!
High-Five!
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Yay! A street singer!
Oh, dear! AWESOME!!
High five, dude! 😎
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Try that! High-Five!
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Beautiful I am following you
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❤
Thank you! I'm really, really happy!
Yours,
Unbolt
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lovely. I like your poems.I’m following you
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I feel honored!
Thank you again! 🙂
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My Dearest Hatter, I could not agree more with Ryan, and Tony seconded the motion! So the ayes have it! Wonderful poem!
Alice ♥
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Thank you, Alice!
Thank you Ry, Tony, Joseph… THANK YOU, GUYS!
I can’t recall how I lived without you! ❤
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Ryan said it perfectly. This piece is all heart. I love it!
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Thank you, Joseph ❤
Thank you for your good words!
I really feel like I'm among my dear friends here…
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Oh what a great masterpiece!!
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Thank you, my dear Walter!
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Your sooooo awesome! ❤
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Sounds like the voice in the poem is trying to be a comfort and asset to another who is wound-up and conflicted, both sure and unsure of themselves, as going back and forth between denial and self-doubt, as your descriptions sound like faulty reasoning is obvious on the side of the conflicted soul. Very compassionate heart at the heart of this poem Unbolt, well done 🙂
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Ryan, you see the heart of Un’s poem so clearly here. I couldn’t have put it better myself. 😀
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Thanks Tony! 🙂
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Thank you, Tony!
Yes, Ry is a supernatural man. He has magical eyes.
He can look directly in the kernel!
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(Ry, sorry for this late reply!)
Thank you ❤
You can't imagine how your words warm my heart (and not only mine, as you can see because of 'like' for your comment!)
I feel happiness and salutary lightness inside my chest. Thank you, my dear friend ❤
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You’re welcome my friend, no worries, I didn’t feel forgotten about! And thank you!
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