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Fractal Lives
We are different faces,
cut from the same stone.
As one's point of view shifts,
the facets may change,
but the the stone remains the same.
Shelter here with me,
embracing and intertwined,
melding into one
simple stone,
evermore.
A Rushmore of everyone : )
A Rushmore of everyone : )
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Many thanks lyrycsyntyme!
I hope I am not intruding by
I hope I am not intruding by posting a second comment on this poem. After respond to your reply on my earlier comment, I read the poem again, and again, and I may very well be reading it even more today. I love its brevity; I love the repetition of the word "stone," like a chime, and I love the "cozy" feeling in the last five lines. The insight that being together (I think of lovers holding each other) is, in itself, a kind of shelter that we all long for adds a surge of power to this poem, and makes its brevity a kind of artistic deception (I mean this as a compliment not a negative criticism)---because the power that is released from that brevity, like the power released from an atom in during fusion in a star's core, is HUGE. I am not a scholar, but if I were teaching a course on Poetry, or even talking to one inidividual about what Poetry is, I would use this Poem as one of my examples. You should be very, very . . . and again I say, VERY . . . proud of this magnificent literary accomplishment. Please make certain that you have a back-up copy, even multiple back-up copies, on file.
Starward
Deeply honored
What every poem strives for. I so happy that you connected with my poem! I thought was a good poem, but had no idea it would be so impactful to others. Thank you again for your kindness.
This mind-blowing, intensely
This mind-blowing, intensely beautiful and TRUE love poem has just sideswiped me with wonder. I mean that. The profound illustration of two opposites entwined is glorious enough, but you encased it in such elegance and intricacy of thought that it became a miracle.
Honestly stunned.
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so glad this conn with you! Thanks patriccajj!
Wow! This took my breath
Wow! This took my breath away. The poem seems very brief, but the power of its metaphor is far greater than the dimensions of the poem that presents it.
Starward
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Thanks Starward! Great compliment! I believe that poetry is language distilled, so I take great joy in your comment!
Wow! Your statement
Wow! Your statement that Poetry is language distilled is one of the best, and most succinct, definitions of Poetry that I have ever read . . . and I say that with the credibility of having read Poetry for fifty years as of last month. I am going to take a screenshot of those words to preserve it in the permanent files on my laptop, because that definition is so classic. I wish it could be added to every textbook on Poetry and taught to every high school student being exposed to Poetry for the first time. If I had known those words when I first entertained, in myself, the ambition to write Poetry (which I first felt in the Autumn of 1975), my preparatory work and study of the forms of Poetry would have been much easier and better organized. You have really "struck gold" in coining that phrase; and though the last couple of days have been difficult, medically, for me, you have lightened my burdens and brought some sparkle to my Friday with these words. Thank you, very much, for one of the most important and impactful replies I have ever received.
Starward
Wow!
I hope your health is improvin, and I added you to my prayer list. As for the saying, I'm sure I picked up in college or a boook. I don't think it's original, BUT, you made my day by sharing the effect it had. Praying for You & always write, even if. I one ever sees it.
Its so nice to look at things
Its so nice to look at things in a similar way a meeting of minds and windows of souls, cutnfirmnthe same cloth the views may be different but the details are interpreted similarly, not too much that nothing need be said and just enough commonality to not grow tiresome the phrase "you are my person" come to mind. What a lovely invitation! Shame its only for the one! Nicer than nice write!
Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS
"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."
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Thank you Syl! I love you!!!