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    A leaf,slowly quietly fell.Was it orange or red?I couldn't tell. Perhaps it was a leaf in a fairytale.As it watched the protagonist grow.And other leaves begin to fall. Personalities begin to grow.As the leaves slowly fell.There is a story everyone tell. Of...

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    • The life of a leaf. Wonderful personification in this, and nice analogy for how life is for a human…except the only tree we fall off of is our family tree…..At times, I got pushed off of mine….but somehow this leaf got off the ground and found another spot in the tree.
      j.

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    Ripe

    No answers - yet.  Am waiting for Rodge the postie to arrive.  Good - clock's ticking into the day - hooray!  Just grabbed the glass milk bottle from the doorstep. Can see the milkie's oops a daisy slip!  (can...

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    Listen ..

    night in the ebon starlessrestlessly thinking an' even more of what we forget to remember  when knocking at the oaken doorwe need ever listen to silenceas  a reminder of what faith means-prayer and trust born of laughter is an...

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    • We need to have enough faith in our fellow men and women to stop and listen to them.
      They matter, their thoughts matter, their poetry matters.
      We need to work together to secure love and respect.
      j.

      • Jacob, your final phrase says it all – although faith appears to be unfashionable these days. Nonetheless, your review is more than kind, sir – many thank, as always.

    • Joy,
      Ah, such a nice sip of cold water in a parched world… This is why poetry is so important… the great mystery is tha there are so many who never slow down enough to find out…
      Vol

      • Some people seem to treat poetry as if it is Covid and it will kill them if they stop to read it.

        WE don’t mean any harm we just tell it like it is.

        • I used to tell my student that poetry was the easiest of all the arts.
          One, it is the job of art to wake souls, sometimes
          minds, two, if you can read, that’s all the skill you need, three what it says to you is what it says. There is no “wrong” interpretation. Changes every time somebody reads it. Oh and in today’s world of diminished attention spans,,. they can be quite short…
          Vol

    • Slowing down these days can be taken as a sense of failure – how tragic is that!
      Time is not for lying on the grass as with your recent poem. It’s more likely,’What, take a day off. Can’t do that, I’d lose money, promotion, the promised new car. Plus do manage to say good night to the kids. Thank you, Vol, your words – like many in the past, are much appreciated.

    • Beautifully penned, Emma. Excellent write my friend. Appreciate you.

      Damian

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