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Harley King's avatar

I love this one.

—: Couplet :—

In my heart, the love-lanterns I hung for you are dark.

Little cruelties crept in and blew them out.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Same - it's such a banger!

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Your poem following perfectly Harriet’s porch poem!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Aw thanks Pilgrim - really appreciate that! 🖤

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

You create dialogues with these poems.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Cheers! That’s always the intention. So glad it translates to the reader!

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Kim Nelson's avatar

The Pillar! Love and devotion in just a few lines.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Totally - so good!

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David Bonsignore's avatar

I know that black river! I just can’t get there anymore

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Dick Whyte's avatar

🖤

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Hasse's avatar

So simple, so clear, and yet so mysterious.

Love your characterization of the universe as an animal. It's an interesting in-between option between intelligent design, and cold, hard science, you could say.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Aw cheers Hasse. Yeah - that was sort of the basis of where that poem came from - I just really love the idea of universe as animal. Kinda goes back to Deleuze's "becoming animal" stuff for me. Different ways of conceiving of growth and change.

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Thomas Rist's avatar

Love these. The first one especially - “Poem” - is magnificent. Not a hint of sentimentality, just stunning imagery!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Totally agree - that first poem is a stunner! And I love the weird capitalisations - I had to double check them cause they seemed wrong. But she uses them in multiple poems, so I left them as originally published.

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Thomas Rist's avatar

Sounds like good editorial practice! Fascinating that she uses capitals in this way.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Yeah I know right - very fascinating!

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Ann Collins's avatar

I paddle on a stream and feel upon it a memory;

soft drinking muzzle of distant far-running deer.

I know the gentle abandon of long grasses in dark streams.

So beautiful.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Ikr - those lines are so amazing! I think that's kind of what inspired my "animal in which other animals" line as well.

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Ann Collins's avatar

Primal.

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Dick Whyte's avatar

Proto!

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