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Gale Hemmann's avatar

Thanks!! The healing I am doing with poetry helps me with also healing from caffeine self-abuse. Poetry is helping me find my "voice" to heal other areas of my heart. Even when life is busy, I think the stronger I feel meter, the more I can catch and follow my natural breath. :) I am advocating for these changes each day and it feels like a current under the sea. :) In meter, we're free, first and foremost!

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Richelle Lee Slota's avatar

I recently wrote a poem titled, I ALWAYS GET EVERYWHERE EARLY--and now I know why.

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William  Marsh's avatar

Yes, nobody worries about poor Isaac. Owen has that great poem about this story and WWI. It ends, if I remember, with the Lord suggesting Abraham slay the ram of pride instead, and then

But Abraham would not and slew his son

And half the seed of Europe on by one.

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Annie Finch's avatar

yes--nobody but Owen and Miller!!! Owen is such a good poet, such as master of tone and the brutal twist. Thank you, William, for reminding me of his wonderful quasi-sonnet (whose rhyme scheme-unrhymed except for the final couplet AFTER the sonnet is over-- is s eloquent in this context; to me it says that his incisive counterfactual version of the story is, here, the real truth-- the only truth worthy of rhyme!)

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Tarana D.'s avatar

So heart warming to see our picture here ,I truly allow myself too nowadays to be oblivious of strict timelines and shoulds that create a lot of pressure

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