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✨️CLEVEN.CLEVERLEAR✨️'s avatar

So how do I write my poetry? Where do I write my poetry? More importantly why can't I figure out what to click on to get started writing?..with or without chatGPT?

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Faith for All's avatar

Thank you for these, Tanner and Rachel.

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wura's thoughts's avatar

Thank you, Tanner and Rachel. This is beautiful 🤍

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Gayla Dunn's avatar

Thank you, Tanner and other poets! All so beautiful and timely for me. Took my mind to John Denver’s lyrics:

https://youtu.be/tv6sRsVsn3g?si=YceLnkRja79DlOOs

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Deborah Rutherford's avatar

Beautiful poems Tanner and Rachel.

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Allegra's avatar

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing

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Andrea Stoeckel's avatar

AFTER A WHILE

By Jorge Luis Borges

(revised and copyrighted by Veronica Shoffstall)

After a while you learn the subtle difference

Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning

And company doesn't mean security,

And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts

And presents aren't promises

And you begin to accept your defeats

With your head up and your eyes open,

With the grace of a woman,

Not the grief of a child

And you learn to build all your roads on today,

Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans

and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn that even sunshine

Burns if you get too much

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,

Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers

And you learn that you really can endure...

that you really are strong

and you really do have worth,

and you learn and learn...

With every goodbye you learn.

Today is a year since my life changed. THis is a poem that means a lot to me and I wanted to share it

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Abigail's avatar

Thank you both. Beautiful meditations on hope in the midst of real life heaviness. Rachel,you capture the way we yearn for the sun with these little ones whose need to be outside feels primal. Tanner, the phone that becomes a leash is a poignant reminder to put it down and be in the natural world, which can teach us to praise. The poems in conversation with each other call us to lift our faces to the morning sun.

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Loretta's avatar

Tanner, your poem was just what I needed this morning, thank you. Rachel's poem about waiting for Spring, so very good!

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