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It Answers Your Calling!
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It Answers Your Calling!

and You Must Not Dismiss it

Nov 06, 2022
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A soul that descends into the darkness to witness the light of creation dance off of wings in an effort to reach the edges of time... then returns. A dream, a hope, an impossible desire. A prayer, a whisper, a memory. Music is my only voice. Poetry is my only release from words." This is the echo of poetry, to ask the shadow to dance."
The Possible Language of Poetry

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” — Carl Sandburg

A child clapped her hands at the sky.

"You cannot call to the sky," she says, "you cannot call."

No matter how loud she yells, what difference does it make?

But silently, in a whisper - so softly that it's barely heard - she speaks: "please?"

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