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It’s just stunning, Tony, this poem is one of my favorite, without doubts!
I remember your beautiful reading of this… do you want to please our dear readers with this record, don’t you? 😛
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Thank you, Tati. A Christmas hug for you! ❤
As for that recording you speak of, it was hard putting it together for you. I was SO nervous and self-conscious! I didn't want you to think I was a total dork! Ha ha! 😛
I might put together another one if you do the same for one of your poems. Fair's fair… 😉
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Tony, this poem is incredible and such a well written and crafted poem.
My favorite lines:
i long for graves hollowed of days
no shrivelled, mournful blue
for the chiefmost cornerstone
to regrow these fields anew
‘tis settled here for stumbling on
‘tis grace to comprehend
and so i’m kept from the devil flurry
to this rock alone i bend
So surreal and visually stunning. Good work my friend. 🙂
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Thank you, good sir. I’m a big fan of the surreal. I think that pretty much sums up my inner emotional life actually! 😛
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You’ve crafted such a soothing touch to your work of words and imagination. 🙂
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I may just blush any second now… 😛
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🙂 Blushing is a sign of goodness and brilliance. 🙂
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Good work Tony. I’m reminded a little of the romantics Wordsworth Coleridge et al
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That’s high praise, Mark. Thank you so much, and now I’m even blushing a little bit! 😛
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You are starting to become my guilty pleasure 🙂
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Aw! Thank you, Ladybug! I love that!
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This has a strong lyrical quality about it, Tony – do you have a melody for it? If so press record and re-post!
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I don’t, Chris, but I wish I did because this isn’t the first poem I’ve written that had a lyrical quality about it. I listen to a lot of music so perhaps that’s where the inspiration comes from. 🙂
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Powerful words – sad, and yet also incredibly inspiring. Love this one.
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I’m so glad that you picked up on the different emotional aspects of this poem, CSS. There is certainly meant to be a bit of melancholy mixed in with the hopefulness. 🙂
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You captured it perfectly. Be well tonight.
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Thank you. You too! 🙂
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Absolutely stunning and beautiful, it very much reminds me of some ancient Celtic song-prayer. Very powerful, indeed! And how so soberly uplifting, albeit with melancholic undertones finely interwoven throughout. Thank you for sharing this!
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I had a book of Celtic prayers at one point, and it’s something I leafed through quite often. I’m quite taken with their lyrical approach which feels like it has one foot in this world and the other… well, is somewhere otherworldly. It’s haunting. 🙂
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Beautiful 🙂
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And it’s beautiful to say so. Thank you, Kelly. I appreciate it! 🙂
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You’re welcome! 🙂
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Tis a nice piece, very poetic!
Double topic, mean we have a conflict of interest!
cheers chris
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Thank you, Chris! A conflict of interest? Oh my! What could that be?
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Differences in spirituality..
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wow!
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Thank you!
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