Calming stones
Mar. 18th, 2006 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramosI hold my breath
Lest I inhale the universe.
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missprune
Each night last week at my parents' house I crawled into bed withmissprune's book of poetry, Still Mystified
. We have been reading one another for at least six years, first on Themestream. In April 2003, we joined LiveJournal together. This book was published the same year. Now I finally have a copy in my eager hands.
It evokes both human warmth and natural beauty. Some verses blaze with friendly five-year-old familiarity. Sometimes the imagery is blinding:
"I want a sun that bleeds red poppies out of ancient stones."
One poem inspired me to search for a calming stone (what a better term that is than worry stone, worry is my nemesis!). The day Brenna and I walked in the mist, I chose six candidates, discarding one. The fossil intrigued me, but such a stone should for its purpose be featureless. The dark one seemed best. I carried it in hand. By the time we got home, it had already turned glossy and dark with oil from my skin.
To think that in all the years I lived at Poplar Bluff Beach, I never got so close to a stone! It's a good poem that sends us deeper into life.
Five candidates
Lest I inhale the universe.
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misspruneEach night last week at my parents' house I crawled into bed with
missprune's book of poetry, Still Mystified. We have been reading one another for at least six years, first on Themestream. In April 2003, we joined LiveJournal together. This book was published the same year. Now I finally have a copy in my eager hands.It evokes both human warmth and natural beauty. Some verses blaze with friendly five-year-old familiarity. Sometimes the imagery is blinding:
"I want a sun that bleeds red poppies out of ancient stones."
One poem inspired me to search for a calming stone (what a better term that is than worry stone, worry is my nemesis!). The day Brenna and I walked in the mist, I chose six candidates, discarding one. The fossil intrigued me, but such a stone should for its purpose be featureless. The dark one seemed best. I carried it in hand. By the time we got home, it had already turned glossy and dark with oil from my skin.
To think that in all the years I lived at Poplar Bluff Beach, I never got so close to a stone! It's a good poem that sends us deeper into life.
Five candidates
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Date: 2006-03-18 08:26 pm (UTC)i've been reading her book too and marked that very line with a big star. wow.
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Date: 2006-03-18 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-20 01:19 am (UTC)I'm sorry to hear you lost stuff on Themestream. That was cataclysmic. I had started to feel almost as attached to people there as I do here now. Fortunately I backed up all my writing. "Bear serenade" in the chapbook was originally published on Themestream.
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Date: 2006-03-19 03:07 pm (UTC)Happy Birthday
Date: 2006-03-19 08:06 am (UTC)Re: Happy Birthday
Date: 2006-03-19 03:08 pm (UTC)*bounce bounce* BIRTHDAY *bounce bounce*
Date: 2006-03-19 04:33 pm (UTC)-Mark "fuzzy"
Re: *bounce bounce* BIRTHDAY *bounce bounce*
Date: 2006-03-20 01:20 am (UTC)How are you doing?
Date: 2006-03-20 03:49 am (UTC)Looking forward to getting out and about again.
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Date: 2006-03-19 06:26 pm (UTC)(Happy Birthday!)
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Date: 2006-03-20 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-19 10:15 pm (UTC)thanks for the wonderful images written and visual
I hope your day was incredible.
Love
Munkey
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Date: 2006-03-20 01:21 am (UTC)Love,
Van
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Date: 2006-03-20 03:42 am (UTC)I thought it was the 19th. I am always a day off. lol.
I hope it was a great one.
love munkey
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Date: 2006-03-20 04:44 am (UTC)Van