Cloudthings

Apr 12, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Facetted perfection

In stillness and in quiet, you form your diamond, clear

In facetted perfection, completely void of fear

How could you arrive at this from all your history?

Surviving trials of heaven and hell, to bring your heart to me.

There should be thunderclaps and lightening,

The earth should split and heave

Instead, this quiet revelation

Showing more than I believe

Prism view and jewelled,

Your fractal spreads and blooms

A simple hand upon my hip

The tenderness the night consumes

Where you’ve been is story

Where you are is clear

You crack the code, still effortless

And slip through breathless, near

Bees may covet sweetness

Less precious than your own

Are these mere days we conjured?

How bright my heart has grown

— Cloudthings, Apr 12, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Australia, regional Victoria, AUS

Favorite Poets: So many... Rumi, Spike Milligan, Keats. Many of the Neopoet clan, past & present. A myriad of song writers, Dylan, Jackson Browne, Lior, & I must add the poetic influence of painters, sculptors & creators across the world... Life really, especially the sky.

Critiques

Nordic cloud

17 years 1 month ago

Bright my heart has grown

Containing a diamond, how magically glitteringly 'simple' this poem revealing in the day the dawn on a new horizon of experience and joy. My Anni of the Australin fires has crushed the rocks together once again and revealed the birth of a new diamond-poem, how beautiful, how sweet the facets shine through all the earth complete. Ann of Norway

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

My darling Norwegian wonder, it's the company I keep! Tree nymph

My darling Norwegian wonder, it's the company I keep... I am magnet to magnificence of late & I hope it doesn't change, the wonderful people that come into my life, just get better & more plentiful... How is when one turns 50 or 60 or 70... I guess we'll hit nirvana if it keeps going this way!!! It is quite nice to feel "court & sparked" as Joni would say.. Otter heaven really. I came home to a house full of people after work today (It's holidays here, we've been having such a nice time), & the delicious smell of black beans ready to eat, wow, how nice. Dearest Ann, how I am grateful to your comfort of the last few months though, I will never forget it & always be grateful to your inspiration & fecund beauty. Anni "Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, and even the phrase, "each other" doesn't make any sense."

faerybeki

17 years 1 month ago

Skin on and sparkling :)

Anni, this is gorgeous! How happy it makes me to read that your heart is bright, you have some skin on and you're sparkling hon! :) This poem is really beautiful, lovely language and imagery, so well expressed and oozes sunshine at me (if the sun could be said to ooze :) ) Really gorgeous Anni! Hooray! :) much love b xx

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Thanks flutter girl xxx we went to visit the butterflies yesterd

Hey gorgeous Beki, I would send you some of my sparkle, but you really hardly need it my friend, you really do shine even if it's in a quiet way just now... So my lovely faery woman, what are you working on of late huh... I shall go look now, though I still have visitors, so it will be a quick one... no less love with it though xx ps. we went to visit the butterflies yesterday, made me think of you, faery winged & fluttering. Anni "Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, and even the phrase, "each other" doesn't make any sense."

faerybeki

17 years 1 month ago

This one leaves me joyfilled

This one leaves me joyfilled with every read! :) Keep coming back to it! Hooray again, quite literally cheering you on.. quietly:).. You write so beautifully of love, and seem to me to understand it so well, you draw to you what you deserve my friend :)Contagiously gorgeous indeed! :) So happy that the butterflies reminded you of me hon, I feel akin to them and the cycles they represent for me.. much love b xx Ps. your scientist doesn't happen to have a brother in the UK does he? ;) LOL XX

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

the person I let into my life has good reason to step in fully

Hey butterfly girl, thanks, I am still wondering if it's real (sadly after my last experience, though I refuse to pull my past into my present & refuse to be jaded by it). Sorry, he only has a sister & she lives on a Malibu beach... I think he is not everyone's Adonis (he describes himself as a "geek", here we describe it as a bit of a "dag"... don't ask!... but actually he is incredibly competent & graceful one to one). I love his mind & his honesty, really he is as sweet as can be & gorgeously attentive, a nice change for me... admit to being on the proverbial cloud nine. I don't know if I understand love when it comes to my own choices, I am often told I am far too trusting when it comes to love... I figure love is infinite so you can be incredibly generous with it. I also think that having lost my love so young, I learned that it's better to step into love completely despite it may be painful if it isn't quite right, I'd rather really be IN life than sit behind armour & not really be fully in my life. So many of us find it hard to trust, I do as well, but I am more driven to over-ride that because the alternative doesn't honour life for me (& consequently doesn't honour the losses I have had to face). One would hope we just get better at it as time goes by, I continue to bless my experiences, even those that have been really painful, since they have brought me here, & this is a really lovely place to be. I think the lesson I learned this year is that I am truly worthy of love, the person I let into my life has good reason to step into that possibility completely, toe in the water doesn't honour anything, & experience has proven that. It's what people actually do that counts, not how lovely their words are... You & I get easilly seduced by words maybe, hard to resist. I think we'll find the balance eventually. I wish it for you my honey, a Californian scientist or some other lovely boy with a golden heart, I have no doubt YOU deserve it... He says I made him come a long way, I said he made me wait a long time (these words have such history for him, he is also a widow, & because we share this experience we are stilled down to a place few people can actually share, it has been extraordinary, beautiful & challengingly raw at times, but it has bonded us in a deep trust & sharing unlike any I've known truthfully for decades, maybe ever on that level.) I want to say "Love will come to you", but it sounds so empty until it does, I can only wish it for you, believe in the possibility of it for you. xxx Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

Arrow

17 years 1 month ago

Excerpts from "Quia Amore Langueo"

(I am Sick with Love) by Anon. I crowned her with bliss, and she me with thorn; I led her to chamber, and she me to die; I brought her to worship, and she me to scorn; I did her reverence, and she me villany. To love that loveth is no maistry (challenge) Her hate made never my love her foe; Ask then no mo questions why, Quia amore langueo . . . Marvel not, man, though I sit still; My love hath shod me wonder strait (wonderfully tight); She buckled my feet, as was her will, With sharpe nails--well thou mayest wait (see)! In my love was never deceit . . . In my side I have made her nest; Look in me how wide a wound is here! This is her chamber, here shall she rest, . . . Come if she will, she shall have cheer Quia amore langueo . . . My sweet spouse, will we go play?

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Too much desperate tragedy occurs in life without actually choos

Oh Arrow, ow ow ow, now this is aching, glad you didn't give me this a few months back, I just would have folded into it. & the awful kick in that last line! Choosing that love despite it's toxic destruction, sigh, I know it too well. Love can be so sticky, bonding our hearts to another before the reality of how their behaviour might damage us is fully exposed sometimes. & once given the heart is so loath to leave the one we adore, even in the face of meanness & cruelty. I always imagined you as a person of such discernment, does it happen for you too, the pull into the oblivion of love without full disclosure of tendency & sufficient time for this to be exposed? Actually, sometimes it is worse than that, the heart views the other in such a light it cannot see the damaging behaviour & chooses it anyway, such as described in this poem. Arrow I abhor it, both that some will play so carelessly with another heart & that some will allow their precious hearts to be so wounded. Too much desperate tragedy occurs in life without actually choosing to step into such a state, yet I have been there too deeply, too recently. Thank you for your contibution, as always I feel enriched. with reverent reflection Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

faerybeki

17 years 1 month ago

I wonder why it can be a

I wonder why it can be a struggle for some of us to accept that we are worthy of love, especially give how loving we are, I'm so glad you have realised it, for you ARE truely worthy hon. and I do believe you understand love, you 'figure' it's infinite and I'm inclined to agree with you, living with love makes you bigger, it's there, we just need to open to it, a bottomless well where we can refill at our leisure, if only we remembered to! :) Your last paragraph has me in tears (again!) babe, I'm hopeful for you too hon, it sounds like you've made a wonderful, loving and lasting connection and my thoughts are with you all :) x 'he said i made him come a long way, I said he made me wait a long time'..sounds like the start of a great poem hon! :) Thank you so much for your wishes sweety, and it doesn't sound empty at all, (I too am much seduced by words but from a loving, honourable soul, they have real power) I believe in the possiblility of it for me, I am open to it but at the same time I will not rely on it's arrival for my happiness, I am grateful to have had and still have 'real' love in my life, I am blessed with a wonderful family, beautiful friends and a daughter who makes my soul shine, oh and there's these poets on this site i found who aren't half bad too ;) Oh Anni, it's always so wonderful to converse with you, i'm beginning to regard you as a very dear friend :) much love b xxx

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Pleasure for me too & thank you, returned to you with wings on!

Pleasure for me too & thank you, all that returned to you with wings on, go read my poem for you when you get a chance, it isn't a lovely ode, (I have written a few of those for you & will post the best soon), it is a sad write, but I am happier now I popped a "happy ending" onto it!!!! Ah the word seduction thing, hmmm, I still struggle with it, I think it was one of the hardest things to lose for a long time for me, & the problem was, with someone who's a good word weaver it's hard to discern if they are a "loving, honourable soul" or not, I'm not sure it's ever that cut & dried either, I suspect everyone has that in them & some choose to live into it more than others do, I KNOW there is greatness & good in my last "heartbreak man", just the combination of us didn't work, he was fine with doing lots of things that I felt did NOT honour love or care between us, & in the end there were things that completely & painfully decimated any trust I could have around ever being with him, I still grieve it because it just seems to me willful carelessness, I don't think he gets how much pain his actions (& lack of) caused me... God! I'm doing it again... arggghhhhh!. Think the thing that's showing up for me now is that the person who will actively "BE" loving, I mean behave consistantly in a caring & considerate way, showing what they desire is for you to shine & be your best, is the one to go for. Pretty words & empty vagueries can seduce really well I discovered, with a few confessions & desires thrown in (ah what a sucker I have been, from here it looks so obvious, but it just wasn't, I guess I saw what I wanted, romanced the myth & not the reality, sigh). Anyway I agree so much, we are best sitting firmly in the places we know we are loved & apreciating that most, & when the wonderful love we crave comes along, it's a bonus. xx Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

orgami

17 years 1 month ago

Diamond glow

Anni how happy to alive and with company be Butterflies are yet away the ice is still firm in her place but soon the lake shall shine her gallant eyes sparkling Otter heaven indeed your warmth spills in new poem language what hope on such an all night/nue morn for I!!

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Heart on my ink soaked sleeve!

Hey amazing wordy boy! Well, I'm not so good at hiding my hearts conditions... shuffle, squirm, fidget! & I must say it is a lovely thing to be blooming love & tenderness that is mutually shared... Ah love & lust shall be the end of us I fear, but this has a better balance than anything I've experienced for many a year, sigh! Maybe I will be lucky this time & have the comfort of an apreciative lover, like you are of Lori (I wonder if he will tatoo my name in some prominent - visible - place on his physique? Unlikely methinks but he is wonderfully demonstrative in any company, I do love that, & it is such a sweet acknowledgement)... I figure you're all going to know anyway when you read my poetry so no point in pretending it isn't happening! Besides, I so love hearing your acknowledgements re Lori & others here, it gave me hope when I felt little in that regard, so thank you. It seems I am destined to wear my heart on my ink stained sleeve for all the world to see, might as well surrender to it. Ah but I didn't say thank you as I must dear brilliant inspiring one... How spoiled am I to be blessed with distant & wonderful writing muses, halo'd in eloquence & shining fire fed with passionate words, even when they are quiet they are wild & move me to glow sympathetically. Thank you O' Anni "Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, and even the phrase, "each other" doesn't make any sense."

Geezer

17 years 1 month ago

facetted perfection?

Title should be 'Sleeveless Heart' but so glad that heart fully healed! it sure sounds like it's pumping fine now! don't need any steth-o-scope, to hear it in your poetry! the world looks so different through eyes of 'love shine'. remember it's all a matter of perception. gee.

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

"Love shine" gives the world such a beautiful glow hey!

Yeah, that's lovely Gee, "Love shine" gives the world such a beautiful glow hey! Anyone who knows me would probably tell you I spend most of my life like that & the truth is I am transparent, in that, when things are good it's pretty obvious, when they are not, unfortunately it seeps through eventually even if I try to hide it... Fortunately I have so much wonderful stuff to apreciate in my life, being loving & joyful is a far more common state for me phew!!!! Heh, have to tell you the hardest thing for me was getting used to hearing an American accent, & if thats the biggest difficulty things are pretty sweet huh! Be funny if we all wrote with accents hey? Actually we sort of do, they are just far more personal than regional Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

orgami

17 years 1 month ago

the world revolves

Lori is tatooed because of all the women mighty and powerful she is the one who is the smallest and whom asks not much but for I to be I to become better and it is she I changed a lot and we are still

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Sometimes hearts leak from historical wounds

Yes, I love this gentle choice you make with Lori. & I am a firm believer that that is where real true good love lies, in the desire for the other to have a good & fulfilling & love filled life... Anything else is empty Pffaff! I see this potential in my scientist, the humble offerings, the face turned to the light of the one you love in gentle generosity, not just lust... In truth I still wonder if it is too early after his loss of such a long deep love, but who knows what is too early?! There are no real rules, he manages extraordinarilly & sometimes, now he has a heart where knows he can express his true feelings (instead of the awful daily brave face because so few can cope with loss in the real world, in the real sense) things may progress more differently. Whatever happens I know I would always be happy to support him since I am certain he would never behave in hurtful ways, he would be too considerate, I think that's what caused me so much anguish in my last situation. For me that is such a relief, maybe a little like what you have with Lori, it's about deserved trust. We will see, but we have already shared good connections over photography & being in the mountains, apart from the dark places grief rarely shares, & other sweeter, warmer connections, there is a silence you can have in a true connection that is beyond communication, don't you think? Sometimes hearts leak from historical wounds, but at best perhaps it serves to deepen appreciation for better possibilities & compassion for others suffering. Love your words as ever O' xx Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

orgami

17 years 1 month ago

integrity of the Hull

oh though I run with the wolves sleeping growling in my sleep come day chaos my life was i crave it everywhere the dark rooms where only the bravest scarred play Lori is learning me the rite of the peircing love the pain of the needle bearing ink to art forever sacred meaning they can take children through illness they can try to take the ink the symbol of the love the rite my hunger for poems drives me as does the other drives and they come where private meaning melds and swirls this literary world "But you know where your breads buttered" Lori and so true though I race panting in the dark return sated by morns light curled in the cage the comfort home waiting for dusk

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

I spill sometimes too raw into this life Orgami to be comfortab

Yes all of this I feel these too Such hunger soft swirls gently waiting & sometimes wild rips me to tatter inside to out in order to discover or create I think you are the closest I have met to knowing this though your poetic beast seems more tame still we only see the screen version here I spill sometimes too raw into this life Orgami to be comfortable it is too beautiful to contain too wild too passion filled too ocean edged I drown stepping over the line but I am compelled I think you know this spell I could write & write in response to your words Ah but I must sleep Neopoet has me up now at 3 30am (Dead give away that I don't have a lover close... I wonder what I will do when that happens, when will I have time for Neo? shudder, is this what will be my fate a Neopoet freak with no life at all outside this space?!!! Yes, well, this is addiction I guess!!!) Sigh! Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

professor

17 years 1 month ago

And not a flaw in sight

Anni. I had to think a while on how i would feel being compare to a diamond rather than a summers day or autumn moon but it etched itself on me with drwaing fingers of dense carbon and with the pressure of word formed its metaphor deep underground lol. Would this be an uncut diamond though? lol You surely wear your heart on your sleeve Anni and that is always beautiful to see. Keith

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Thanks for dropping by & prodding me with your lovely Professo

Thanks Keith, I have to have a chuckle after the recent works I've read from you, what would I say you wear on your sleeve??? Though I am not averse to a little undercurrent of sensuality in my writes, just waiting for the inspiration again, perhaps a trip to the hardware store?! Hmmm, no I'm more likely to get most inspired at a convention for men with asbergers syndrome, since it is brilliance & wit that do it for me more than brawne or beauty... no wonder I end up broken hearted (I am taking the P....sss regarding myself here, not sure how that translates internationally or even in this flat medium?), hope I don't offend anyone.... It is actually true sadly, I have fallen in love with more than one man with Asbergers in my time, they possess real genious (extremely highly functioning, just function better with routine etc. shows up when that is skewed, ouch!), I feel we all quite possibly have unlabelled syndromes of various flavours, & there are pros & cons to all our behaviour. Enough of the essay about that! Uncut, yes probably in truth it is, but not the way I was thinking about it when I wrote this, not a diamond in the rough, this was one cut cruelly & precisely by the worst that grief might offer really, I guess that's why it is a diamond I came to, & not a day, season or moon symbol (Think I did have a moon one recently though), these were not imposed like facets are on a diamond. Sliced laser swift & clinical. I do love your comment though... "but it etched itself on me with drwaing (I assume drawing?) fingers of dense carbon and with the pressure of word formed its metaphor deep underground" lovely! You have a wonderful mind (don't have Asbergers do you?... kidding completely! I think LOL would suffice, but I still have a lol snobbery I am annoyed with myself about, but can't give up just yet!). Thanks for dropping by & prodding me with your lovely Professors mind. Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

professor

17 years 1 month ago

Interesting minds

Yes its true that some individuals with Aspergers can have simply incredible minds or specific talents way beyond those of others. No I am not one and indeed in a curious twist part of my research is aiming to produce therapeutic empathogens to help individuals with autism spectrum disorders cope better with the social and empathy problems that they can find make dealing with other people a bewildering experience. Indeed, my more passionate poems such as "Intimate connection" where two peoples emotional experiences and interactions are being expressed simultaneously would be very difficult for individuals with serious autistic disorder problems to understand, let alone to write. Many have problems in seeing let alone feeling things from another persons point of view so i can see why you ended up having relationship problems with them. Anyway loved the diamond exchange whether it be diamond in the rough, rough diamond or unwilling laser-cut diamond or even flawed diamond there are always multiple facets awaiting discovery. BW Keith

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

how do you synthesise empathy? I am hugely interested

Years ago I studied Autism (major papers "Human sciences"), before Aspergers was the flavour of the month, but I have a pretty good understanding of it, I have a few good friends who have sons my own son's age who were diagnosed as "Asperger babes". There is an odd duality I am well aware having actually been intimately connected to individuals with this condition. In fact in one relationship my partner's situation was acknowledged when his son was diagnosed, his behaviour was very difficult, I enquired - knowing there is a likely chance - as to whether one of the other family members might display tendencies, he piped up saying "that'd be me", at the time I said "no you have far too much empathy", in hindsight it was only under certain conditions (hence the duality, he could be quite loving & seemingly empathic, but I think perhaps, as one can "trick" a movement moving muscles other than those normally required, perhaps he did that behaviourally & I mistook need & vulnerability for love & care? He was extremely intelligent & sharp... & Scottish, so maybe the cultural difference hid some aspects). We've talked quite a bit since, it's great for his (exceptionally intelligent) teenage daughter, (no indication of the same syndrome), to understand why her dad is the way he is, he is an exceptional & beautiful man, & yes under certain circumstances life is a challenge for him (but you know we all have our challenges!), but he does really well as a Project manager & specilist engineer. Ah, but I love what you are doing, what a fantastic thing, I wonder how you synthesise empathy? I am hugely interested (oooh I can think just a couple of people I could give a good shot to), though I guess this is not the arena, perhaps I should do a search, I used to subscribe to "New Scientist" (drool) & it fed my need to have more understanding of "Life, the Universe & everything", perhaps you can point me to an article or site that has dialogue on this subject. You do draw marginalising waffle from me on this blessed poetic site, apologies all, I shall go castigate myself, you may blame the Prof for being so interesting. Ahh well my "Deep thought" dreamer (sorry I do love Douglas Adams, hope these refs are not boring), better attend to my life after all! Just an afterthought, I wonder why there seem to be no Scottish or Irish poets on this sight? Burns is a joy sometimes. Cheers Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

Kailashana

17 years 1 month ago

Anni, your multi-faceted

Anni, your multi-faceted love poem has also inspired a plethora of emotions from my favourite poets... Being an elder here, I have lived through much love... passionate, seductive, lusty, extraordinary... and that was only last year. ;-) But I am ready for love once again.....the hunger for touch, for closeness for sharing life itself knows no barrier....across time, space, age, distance..it is here we awaken to be who we are....lusty creatures, filled with desire. ~A "The way you make love is the way God will be with you." Rumi

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

off you go seductress of Neo, & weave your lascivious ways

Anna, you made me chuckle so warmly with your comment about it being "only last year". Remember in our teens & one year held so much it was like 20 now? Or am I just weird? Still, I have a bit of that even now! so I relate to that comment indeed. Yes I have beloved friends of all ages & I am aware that our desires & craving for love & lust don't change, well they change, they just don't disapear at all... I have a brilliant book on all the various hormones & chemicals our bodies produce (& effects etc.) comparing age & gender, & it seems to me the balance gets better as we age in fact It may well be a better deal in many ways on balance, the testosterone/progesterone production in men & women rise/increase to be more in harmony with each other apparently, lovely I thought! So off you go seductress of the Neo world & weave your lascivious ways, I will be in the wings willing you success & wishing you all the sensuality & tenderness love can muster, & I know that's a lot... Mmmm now I've incited myself, heady stuff this!!! (I am in such a silly mood, lack of sleep no doubt... no it isn't for THAT reason! Up too late with Neo, a testament to my lack of spicey iteraction I think, ah well... not entirely I confess, hence having to catch up here, oh goodness I do wear my heart & business on my sleeve! All in fun). Oh & I ADORE your Rumi quote, how perfect too for this conversation. What an incredible man to write these things so brilliantly, so agelessly so many centuries ago, I love Rumi (I had a Rumi quote for ages, only replaced it with Mandela recently). Cheers Anna, lovely to find you in my pages, a real pleasure, hope to see more of you... that's inspiration to write more inspiring works I guess, I better get cracking, should also go visit more of yours, have we buddied? if not I'd like to so I can see what you are coming up with easily. xx Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."

themoonman

17 years 1 month ago

Anni...

I too loved your write... some beautiful lines within and throughout... a joy for an old man this morning to read... I got lost in your interactions with the other poets on the comments and had to read the poem again and again... I've been here on your page for a while... and still smiling... thanks Richard