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      I was gonna jump
      but I needed someone to watch
      so I waited
      and while waitin
      the moment passed
      and I forgot why I climbed
      so I came back down
      quieter than I went up

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      I moved from Buffalo, NY in January. It got too hard to get around 90% blind. I was so close to having my cataract surgery by February but I also came close to being hit by a car twice....

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      • Im so sorry to hear you’re going through all of that. You want you write horror go ahead. There are a few people on here that love it.

      • It wouldn’t be all horror.

      • First reading of your predicament, super sorry to read of this. But hopefully your surgeries are successful and we get a new Paula with a totally new poetic vision.

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    • The Tenth Muse Speaks: Whispers Across Lesbos

      She walks on the edge of the wind,
      voice braided with sea and olive,
      each syllable a spark struck
      from the tinder of longing.

      Island-born, where the waves fold
      like a lover’s arm,
      she counts the pulses of hearts
      as though each beat were a star.

      You burn me
      my limbs betray m…Read More

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      • Curly Grace, what a great opening line: “She walks on the edge of the wind”. While I enjoyed reading the entirety of your poem, that last verse will be remembered by me. Poets, poetry, should never be “contained” or constrained. -Curt

        • Thank you, Curt. That means a lot. I’m glad those lines stayed with you. And I agree… poetry needs room to breathe.

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