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Dick, I hope Claire Bu Zard hears your words across time...

Seek knowledge: Be warm and sing: Find solace in nature: Be free.

In other words: Begin Again 🌿

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I think she can hear them! Pretty sure that being published on Forgotten Poets is probably the first time these poems have been read in like 100 years - so I think if she could be listening, she is 🖤

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"if your covenant

with water

should ever polarise

into ice,

melt into song"

love this ❤️

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Cheeeers Kerry - I felt real good about those lines, and worked hard on them :-) so I really appreciate you singling them out 🖤

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Grateful for the brilliant work you do, Dick. 🙏

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'like Eve

seek the knowledge

of trees

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be not adamant

in your understandings

but dormant

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avoid the cold

and if your covenant

with water

should ever polarise

into ice,

-

melt into song'

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Awwww super thankful for your comment Sea! Really means a lot 🖤 And thank you for highlighting these stanzas. I was pretty happy with this one, and feel like I am getting somewhere with the way I can navigate images through layerings of words and concepts. And yeah - really appreciate you!

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My favourite part!!

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🖤

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Love, love, love :)

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Awwwww 🖤🖤🖤

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I love the Bu Zard poems, Dick—they feel as if they could have been written today. Your homage is quite wonderful, too.

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Absolutely! Yeah, he work is so fresh. Aw thanks 🖤 Really appreciate it.

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I found it amazingly fresh, Dick, even the POV is fresh!

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Absolutely!

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Thanks for all the good work you do and your reactions to the poems that you find 💪💪♥️♥️

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Cheers Christopher 🖤 Really appreciate it!

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More intriguing poems - the first and the third especially. Tremendous last line from Dick Whyte too!

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Thanks so much Thomas! Yeah the first and third are pretty special to me. Aww - so glad you dug that last line :-)

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I love this post, Dick. It's interesting how many poets from many years ago struggled with their lives for various reasons and seem to have turned to poetry as an outlet.

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Absolutely - astute observation Rod - and I think a lot of us are still doing that haha 🖤 I know I am anyway.

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We’re all looking for something.

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🖤

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I love love loveeee this!!

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Awwwww - cheers Pleasant - so glad they resonated!!!!

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