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Cindy Diskin's avatar

You always inspire me Kevin! Just when I think all words have flown away, n out of my belly something pecks at me inside…when waterfalls bellow inside one’s body

Trapped and unable to turn inside out.

Water-logged organs glimpsing for survival.

This grief, I have known.

Heart searches

For that one dry spot to find refuge.

She always finds it, and moves on

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Kevin Swanwick's avatar

Please finish this poem! It is there waiting for you.

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Cindy Diskin's avatar

Hmmmmm… not sure where to go with it?

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Kevin Swanwick's avatar

Keep listening and the poem will write itself.

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Djelloul Marbrook's avatar

I thunk Pablo Neruda would have liked this poem.

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Kevin Swanwick's avatar

Del, which translation are you reading? I have never read the collected works, only a few poems—love poems—here and there.

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Cindy Diskin's avatar

In Praise of Folly- what a great title! Is that your new book? Can I get it?

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Kevin Swanwick's avatar

I stole the name from Erasmus who used it in a sufficiently ambiguous way. :-)

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Cindy Diskin's avatar

Absolutely love this! Very inspiring!❤️

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