Oh Love! You have written your words in water;
cradled in the hollows of Silence
and in cupped hands of compassion ...
drifting on shimmering secrets.
The incomprehensive depth of the Soul
translates this hydrophytic tale of passion:
untroubled, as a philosopher addressing
the Self, I found rest within your rippling.
I await your rapid flow: that unsuspected gush
in the stream to test the buoyancy of fantasy;
to feel, not tranquility, but the waves of fulfillment;
slipping into the whirlpool of Ecstasy.
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Written January 26th, 2002
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Love this, so vivid and I like the 'water' images... I love the lines
untroubled, as a philosopher addressing
the Self
It just gave me an image of sitting near the stream in the forest in deep contemplation... beautiful poem
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Thank you ...
for leading me back to my first poem posted in AP
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Myra
Just wonderful. I get a picture of a beautiful baptism that warms and enlightens the kinder heart. A blessing of compassion and understanding. Peace poet.
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Thank you Bob ...
This is my first poem posted on this Website. Thank you for reading and commenting. I appreciate it sincerely.
Love
Myra
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I don't always comment, because with you I end up sounding like a sycophant, but this, this was like a warm wind in fall tripping up my spine as I walk through woods. You offer so many peace. I hope you know that.
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Beautiful Rae of Light and Love ...
you bring to my inner niche of protection a door to step right into a beautiful Eden of New Life. Thank you so much for inspiring me when I need it most.
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You are a Poet of my heart
How wonder-ful; your masterful crafting of words transports to a world unseen, but deeply felt. What a joy.
crystallady
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Thank you so much.
We are linked by Love ...
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Great poem
Great aligory for God, water. Peaceful and strong. Envoloping. Made me think of a haiku to make
Gods love surrounds me-
Carying me down the stream
To eternal life.
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Thank you so much ...
for your warm words on my poetry.
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Oh, Myra. I thought I had read this before. Your FIRST ONE out of over 1700. How did you DO that? It shows that the breath inhaled is longer in exhaling. So little of God's oxygen needed for so much. His quantity above ours.
In a sense, I see this to be like a precedant as well as summation.
I await your rapid flow: that unsuspected gush
in the stream to test the buoyancy of fantasy; Right here is prophecy of that!
How you are able to caption a whole picture and still show tiny elements is beyond this world's comprehension.
You certainly show that you must be the Magdeline for sure... DNA is all we need.
Love and respect you so much!
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I love it every time when you trace my poetic steps ...
and I must tell you a secret: I forget my poems almost as soon as I wrote it. Sometimes I reread them, like when someone leads me back to them ... and then I think: Yes. I agree, this is exactly what I feel about this topic. As if it is the product of another's pen.
I am sure you will know what I mean!
About Magdalene: except for her name, her love for Jesus is what we share. I love Him passionately.
Thank you for reading!
Love
Myra
Ps. I am sending you the information about GAINED LOSS next week -- order etc. I shall post it on my page, too! X
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He also crouches, and writes finger in the dust...
One of my meditations this year has been the notion that a christian doesn't get to hate anyone. I have practiced cultivating compassion; understanding it is brokeness and wounds that create the ... evil men do to each other. I have practiced on historical figures; trying to think compassionate thoughts for Hitler, stalin, etc.
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I would love to hear all of your readings ...
for I am so busy making books, I do rarely read!
Thank you for taking time to also read this very first post of mine.
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You possess a beautiful mind!
The "hydrophytic tale of passion" is truly full in meaning. Plants that survive partially or wholly in water to me symbolize life and survival. Could this metaphor possibly symbolize the giving of birth to a child? Or could it allude to a baptismal encounter of sorts?
I love your rhythm and your cohesiveness throughout.
Your poetry is extremely advanced and you have inspired me to grow in my craft as a young poet.
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I am so glad to see your are growing as a poet ...
and yes, water in all of its metaphorical and cleansing references is of great importance to the Believer.
Thank you. Hope to read you soon!
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Beautiful!
Gee! I'd like to know what inspired you to write this poem!This is very lovely!I enjoyed it!
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Ah.
I am always and all ways inspired by the Supreme and divine Poet of all of creation, our one God and Father. And that of course says it all.
Thank you for reading my work. And for reading back to this entrance poem. Since January 26, 2002 much motion and change swirled me into vastness of loss and beautiful gain. Indeed: I write in water.
A wondrous Feastive Season for you and yours, with the Gift of Life as our link to the All of Souls.
Love
Myra
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A very interest piece, I enjoyed this very much, hope you liked that fact that I went back to the very first poem that you posted here on this site, I like doing that because I feel that it enabled us to see how we have grown as writers and as person. Hopefully this poem brings back go memories, Once again good write!@!
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I am thrilled ...
that you took the time to search for this. I am also glad that the memories which this poem brings, which ARE good, inspired you too, for are we not all interlinked?
Love
Myra
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Brilliant!
Did you know that you have one thousand, two hundred and thirty-one poems as of this moment? I am in awe of the number of amazingly inspirational poem you have…it hot i would go back to one of your earliest works to see how you have grown as a writer…i cannot tell the difference. From your earliest work to your most recent, you still have the same Psalm-like quality in your work, the same connected-ness to the universe and the One who breathes life into us all. This permeates all you write, wonderfully. Blessings and best wishes, ~richard
And you, well, you are and will always be, among my favorite authors on this planet. I am moved by your work as well, you are alongside my favorites with Emily Dickenson, Anias Nin, Sylvia Plath, Amy Lowell, Denise Levertov and Elizabeth Rebecca Ward.
You are a treasure.
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...........your first posted?
I found that the first of your postings was not void of whatever you aspired or endured from the start. It was soooooooo good!
Beautiful depictation of the main theme of how you are..."
.." a fluidic essence of what composes
the heartful muse..."
I had to find it, sister. I just had to find it.
Love, Dianne the Cookie
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I like this Myra.
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Thank you dearest one for the suggestions -- for now I would leave the poem as is, though -- for it has been published as such.
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This is truly a great piece, you have captured a lot of imagery with this; and have done a great job of leaving an impact on the reader.
The line;
"cradled in the hollows of Silence"
was my favorite throughout the entire piece. It had a definate sense of originality and it's own voice, and it fit the piece just perfectly.
..I have just a few suggestions for improvement;
*There's a few lines in this, where the way it's worded makes the context and imagery seem more 'distant', and as if the reader is just reading words as opposed to taking in the images and messages formed by these words. One place where I saw that the wording was a problem was the line;
"The incomprehensive depth of the Soul"
...maybe trying something like
"The soul, so deep it is nearly incomprehensable"
(I'm not sure if I spelled the last word right...but you get the picture..)
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"I found rest within your rippling."
That line had a really great flow, because of the two "R" words near each other...maybe looking through the rest of the piece, you could find the places where the flow is a little bit rocky, and tweak a word or two-resulting in a line like the one you have above.
..Other than those two suggetsions, this poem is truly wonderful, you have a lot of talent as a poet-and it's really up-to your artistic perception whether you take thsese suggestions or not, and they're only here as guidelines-so you can take one and leave the other, or take both, or leave both. Thank you for entering this piece into my contest; and I'm really sorry that I didn't get around to critiquing this before the contest was judged, but I hope that this makes up for it. Thanks again,
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WOW... what an aritistic rite you hav a very unique style and i really love the way you rite thank you for sharin enuf love
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Remarkably Original
For me, it's an original, unique idea,
Words written in water, indeed!
Whoever he was who gave you this idea,
I hope he fulfilled your need
--Tiki Cat
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Is this your first write? I kept clicking to find it. Thanks.
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To me, this poem describes poetry. That's what I see in it. How fulfilling poetry can be, how you can just get pulled into it, you know. And yet, it's so mystical and mysterious. These words are so deep, so, so deep. . . . You have done an extremely awesome job on this. I'll have to read some more!
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Sweet love, washing all that beats before our eyes with the freshness of ripples. A beautiful piece of poetry. Drop a stone into he depths and it will be still be falling as time wraps itself up to sleep.
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I had always thought 'sands of time' is the only apt phrase to employ to represent permanence.But with the poem here;well,it's clear 'water' is as good as 'sands',or betters it.Enthralling is the last stanza.Short,sweet and charming.
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decided to make a trip to your beginnings, at least on this site... a love i carry in my heart and you express what i feel like no one else...
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this deals with really profound matters and you have managed to put that down in writing in a very unique sort of way. excellent style and form, exquisite imagery. Great write!
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What a sweet poem indeed.
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You are an artist who delves beyond art and endeavours in the unmatter of the soul. Perhaps you are an angel sent to this barren place to touch mere mortals with a fingertip of your immortal spirit. Thank you.
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WOW!!! *SNAPS* for amazing writing! Man-oh-man, this blew me out of the water- you really really should enter this in a contest!! The imagery as glory27 stated, was out of this world! The words as the above said were great- I really wish I didn't use up all my applauds because this deserves it!! Nicely done! Keep up such great work!
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this is really good, i especially love the imagery."test the buoyancy of fantasy", great idea. i look forward to reading more of your poems.
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Tremendous ..... Form, stye and word usage totally perfect .... and the words float around the mind like flotsam and jetsom on an ocean .... Bravo my friend .... excellence personified ... Andy
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untroubled, as a philosopher addressing
the Self,
We have been doing this a lot in my philosophy class recently. I had no idea how complicated we can make things
that unsuspected gush
in the stream to test the buoyancy of fantasy
I love this. The bouayancy of a fantasy, sorta makes me think of the one I wrote recently about the clouds od a Fantasy. Thank you for commenting on it. Your words and wisdom are always appriciated.
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to flow in the ripples of the tide
so it is in our life
may you always have wind on your back
light on your path
and love in your heart
for you are a precious one.
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"Shipping into the whirlpool of Ectasy"
Now this is a mouth full.. It is like saying I will loose myself in the black hole of eternity.
Yvonne
great work as usual.
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Oh, Love, if you were such as this to me...
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Thanks all my poet friends ... did I skip you, Travis, CCG, Connor, ille, and Kimmie ... I really appreciate you reading ...
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Again, another lovely piece written. I'd say this reminds me of a word that is at the height of fullfillment... hierarchy of needs- ineffable. I'd like to find a word to clearly define that emotion as you have above, but it is so very hard to put one's tongue upon perfection of emotion. Then again, you've done so here.
Nicely said- again, quite wonderful imagery.
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don\'t touch it! wonder wat?
very vivid write...clear images...
a good write, thanx for sharing!
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l'll have what she's having!!
such sweet fulfilling inspiration...
pleasure to share...
indeed
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Thanks Renegade, Vicki, kyew and Sherry ... I appreciate your comments ...
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Hi Myra, to write words in water would this perhaps mean, tears emotions that come from the heart....Like without speaking able to cry and weep with feeling and actions even when words arent said- somewhat? Kinda friend this is deep but lovely....the rippling be comfort....whats inside of them. Estacy like being able to weep, and enjoy the happiness in unity touched by eachothers souls I tried (Sorry) if Im ignorant Ms Myra Im getting early start on yours. Hugs and love, Sherry xx
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eutopic feelings in this, myra... peaceful and serene
I like your comment about revisiting your old poems... I feel the same way... like revisiting an old friend :) -
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ythis poem is so awesomely done, wriitern so full of imargery here, exceptionally piece. -
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Thank you, Pataliyah ... as always.
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Thank you, Ana, for reading and commenting ...
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i drink this in,
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don't touch it!
I hope to find the tranquility you seemed to have found with the one you love. This is a wonderful poem, and I can't wait to read more. :)
Ana -
Thank you CM ... I always forget my older poetry ... I am also surprise if I rediscover it ... when you lead me back here ...
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Thank you, Shadid ... that you are my fan ... I need honest fans ... and I am yours, too ...
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don't touch it!
just breathing this one in Myra.... its lovely.
*smiles
CM -
don't touch it!
myra,
Your works always encourages me to write...to be a poet like you...just a dream..:) oneday it may come true...
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You did arrive late ... didn't you, dear Sir? Smiles
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how else should I write words
nothing here on earth is permanet
my pen dries my finger ache
But water is that sentiment
that leaves and then returns
whe the storm clouds brew
and make thunderous rejoicing
with fire and with rain
and wake the world for
awesome celebration of love
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Thank you BlaZe ... water an' fire, hey? SMILES
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wow, superb writing. the flow is just soo soo natural
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Oh Erin! We faeries do quench our thirst with words, don't we? Thanks for the visit, my dear.
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ah, delicious! certainly, i drank this in. the words you used were beautiful. flowed like water.
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Thank you, Dawn and CTD.!
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wow, marvelous beauty here :o)
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Beautifully written. Keep up the good work
God is blessing you with love, health, and wisdom
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Thank you, my dear poetical friends, for your compassion. I am mystified by your talents as well ... as I always say: the gift of creativity is but a burrowed moment ....
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You have amazing imagery! Enjoyed the read, it kept my attention! :)
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Great write, chose your words well, enjoyable to read.
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This is FANTASTIC! Definately one of my favorites thus far!
Well done!
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