Thursday, July 21, 2016

Pretty River Comments

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Leave the days and time for those who lost what came before.
Don't kill your energy with daydreams that blaze with a fire waiting for the perfect storm.
Hold out your hands, summer grass in the wind
Maybe a drop of life will fall into the palms like a dear friend.
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Leah Ayliffe
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Paul Davies 21 July 2016

This poems reads to me as an encouragement to someone previously disappointed, or for some reason presently doubtful, to give things a chance, to open up. I suppose, as Joseph Campbell famously said, 'We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.' On the other hand, as Joseph Conrad wrote in Lord Jim, 'It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.'

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Edward Kofi Louis 21 July 2016

In love alone! Love is all that we need. Thanks for sharing.

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