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Peggy/Sarge's avatar

Love this poem

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natalia's avatar

Thanks queen Patti🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Tracy Godding's avatar

My pocket poem is Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

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Steven just an average guy's avatar

Patti, you are hard on yourself….you are a wonderful person!

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Vivian Valvano Lynch's avatar

I love this little poem. I’d never read it before. “What languor is this/That creeps into my heart?” My God, that is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing. 💜

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Kay's avatar

A truly poignant poem.

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Christine Caronna Beard's avatar

Amazed by your wisdom and knowledge.

I love the poem, thank you for sharing it.

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David's avatar

Patti! - I am starting a movement to ask Substack to put in a poetry section on the website - https://substack.com/profile/10309929-david/note/c-15537618

Feel free to support, and thank you as always :)

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Michael Mohr's avatar

That cat 🐈‍⬛ ❤️❤️❤️

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Kevin Reid's avatar

Thank you for reading, Patti 🎈

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Deborah Daniel's avatar

Thank you thank you, dear Patti.

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Jo Wright's avatar

thank you Patti. and welcome home.

If I had known you, too,

collected a stone

here and there, I might have held on

to the gravelly earth, the tiny pebbles

that I bent to collect (so to be sure I'd not forget)

from in front of the Auschwitz firing wall

and fingered them in my jacket pocket

as I followed my husband on the tour,

and fingered them whenever I wore

that jacket, for two decades and more.

But when the coat, worn, thread-bare,

no longer served - I held the stones

in my palm and wondered - would

another pocket do? - instead

I placed them in the bed of crimson leaves

beneath the Japanese maple we had

planted on our wedding day -

alongside his ashes, for now too

is gone.

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Caio Hallit's avatar

Today is my birthday, Patti

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David's avatar

Happy Birthday! I am starting a movement to ask Substack to put in a poetry section on the website - https://substack.com/profile/10309929-david/note/c-15537618

Feel free to support, and thank you as always :)

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Maria Spelleri's avatar

Stones in my pocket

Food on my book

—What languor is this?

A beautiful sensitivity,

infinite and infamous.

In any event, going beyond

my own little pocket moment.

Maybe find your own little poem—

Something that will fit in your pocket.

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Lisa A's avatar

THE BLESSING OF THE MORNING LIGHT

The blessing of the morning light to you,

may it find you even in your invisible

appearances, may you be seen to have risen

from some other place you know and have known

in the darkness and that that carries all you need.

May you see what is hidden in you

as a place of hospitality and shadowed shelter,

may that hidden darkness be your gift to give,

may you hold that shadow to the light

and the silence of that shelter to the word of the light,

may you join all of your previous disappearances

with this new appearance, this new morning,

this being seen again, new and newly alive.

David Whyte

In Memoriam John O’Donohue

Easter Morning 2015

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Lisa A's avatar

Thank you, dear Patti. Love this poem....maybe be small... but not small in feeling. I sense a feeling a loneliness from Verlaine. sadness...

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