Let the water flood the threshold

Oh My dearest Anushka & what a wonderful, wonderful comment you have left (as you do), full of poetry & gorgeous word weaving, sigh - This is the joy of being a Neo member I forget of late how divine it can be to post a work then watch the brilliance of other poets unfold beneath it in comments that are so beautifully laced with the incredible wonder of the writers mind. Thank you for these lovely words Oh & OF COURSE, I see it so clearly now you point it out... you are so right, the 's is completely superfluous & it reads so much more alluringly without it... you turned a light on dear one, thank you.. YAY! Love to you & thank you for lending me the loveliness you wrote for Anna, just lovely. Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Dear Dale, Such beautiful sentiments you gift to me & I thank you so much for these lovely words, I am so glad this has pleased you, it felt like a simple stream of consciousness bleed of the pen, but tender in it's intent. I so love the way you describe your responses & you have such incredible insight & sensitivity always, it is a delight to have you comment on my work, thank you. As I said above to Ann - This is the joy of being a Neo member I forget of late how divine it can be to post a work then watch the brilliance of other poets unfold beneath it in comments that are so beautifully laced with the incredible wonder of the writers mind. I wondered after posting, if I have been writing in a haze of mediocrity of late, I think it is true to some extent, but out of the haze float such gentle whims sometimes, of reflection & ponderance, but embedded within lies skeletal clarity, undeniable, of truths that changed my life at critical junctions... Again, I thank you for knowing & letting inner message reach you. So cheers to you (bubbly if you like), raise your glass & drink to Neo insights & sharing, may it live forever & feed us with more hunger to reach each other more clearly, more deeply with mirth or tragedy or care or passion, whatever it takes to touch the more exposed nerves & hearts of poets!!! CHEERS!!!! & cheers again Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Thanks lovely shells, (how I LOVE that image by the way, another Laurel or Daphne, nymph of the trees, beautiful). It does have sad overtones, I guess I have quite a sad history it creeps in often I suspect, but it has given me so much compassion & desire to have a lovely joyfilled life in the present that I love it all the same.. I guess that is the message of the poem if there is one, from the loss & holes left in one's history, a greater perspective can be found & a deeper love & apreciation of what is, as well as a desire to be more respectful & gentle with the delicacies of the hearts of others. I love the imagery of your cottonfields in the moonlight, never seen such a thing (doubt there are any in Australia), but it feels lovely like the view of a cloud bed from above, one of my favourite views ever, So I thank you. I am slowly making my way to catch all the great Neo writes, am looking forward to seeing where you have been heading with your writes. Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Thanks Mantiscepter, so glad you enjoyed this, & I am intrigued that you name it a story, & interested that it comes across as one. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I guess in a way all poetry is probably story. Wow, that eye is something... hard to look away from huh? Hope you're setting in here Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Yes, well you sum it up well or should I say you read it well, my son was home from school today & was discussing his desire to be a pilot & showing me some pictures he'd drawn of planes, he came in when I was responding to an earlier comment on this poem & wanted to read it. Of course he is well aware of my history & the sadness that leaks into my writing now & then (though I am mostly a pretty jolly creature in the flesh). He read the poem so perfectly, he understood & discussed it so intelligently & so clearly & remarkably sensitively but without reserve... I feel you have summed that up so succinctly. Heh, Paris huh, I think of myself as a romantic, but I guess I must'nt be a very traditional one, Paris has never been a draw. I'd rather go to the Hebridean Islands or Nicaragua, I suppose it's the wilderness that tugs at me, but we could meet during a stopover, since I am sure it would be worth it for aconverstaion with a poet of your very refined skill. Thank you for the stars & the knowing, I think you picked my fave lines as well. Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone