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🤣❤️❤️❤️
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😨 well first of all may I repost it? Without appropriating it, of course...also...might it go with this week's theme? Antigone's battle with Creon after all turned on what was the greater offence, the sin before the gods or the disobedience before man...🥰
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...and such a thrill that you write in response to my recent riff on Substack, it's just the kind of spontaneous collaboration that makes the potential of online communities so exciting. Do you have any thoughts about where you might take the poem?
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@bethbpoet.bsky.social thanks again so much for this. I especially adore the Tik Tok Chorus which you mobilise to great effect in this second version, with their ineffectual and complicit oohs and aahs. And your Antigone 'Who places herself / ...beyond all city walls' and 'stands / at the prow'❤️❤️
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Got back late last night, looking forward to sitting down to this properly now! ♥️
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Thank you very much, Evie 🙏❤️🙏
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This is SO exciting Beth! I am in Lisbon and can't give this my proper attention right now but I Iove it immediately and will come back to you in a quieter moment asap! 🥰
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A VERY real but well hidden one! 😆
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It's kind of like a true story in the first two stanzas and an interpretation about symbolic play in the second... With Eeyore thrown in for good measure, because the satisfactions of putting the one gift into the other were greater than the honey or the intact balloon could have offered 🥰
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My bad! 🙄 SO excited though to find out what you come up with🥰 open.substack.com/pub/johnadla...
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Thank you! 🙏
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Dorian, may I ask? Is this a recognised formal structure? If so, does it have a name and rules and so on? Or did it simply emerge from your own experimenting? I ask because I tried it out on something I have bubbling on the stove with vaguely interesting results, but don't of course wish to plunder🙏
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Ah wonderful thank you, I am so glad you enjoyed it 🥰
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I hope you feel better soon @alanparry83.bsky.social. Thank you @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for being the superstar that you are. I must present my apologies in fact - off to Lisbon tomorrow for a long weekend to attend the wedding of a very old friend, will catch up with #PoemsAbout fun next week🙏♥️
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Thank you Jan! I greatly appreciate it. You all are very lovely! I feel like I've had some good therapy on this memory this afternoon- not so much because it was traumatic, tho I got a fright; more because I think back upon my little boy in that moment with such love, and you all have borne witness🥰
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😂🥰 thank you very much, I appreciate it! A damned close run thing, as somebody once said...🙄
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Yup! You couldn't make it up! 😆 Of course the story is partly told against myself, because nowadays (as you might well imagine!) I check what is in the oven before I switch the thing on 🙄
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I am DELIGHTED that it made you laugh! 😂😂
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Thank you Paul, that is a very sweet response, and I am glad to hear that I got some humour and tenderness across together 🙏🥰🙏
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I know...the horror! 😱😂
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Yes, this is a consummate poem, somehow as full of the flickering lights of morning as the scene it is ostensibly depicting 👏♥️👏
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Ah yes, likewise! I am only bloody well out of town (in Lisbon, so can't really complain, but still...I kind of can!!!) 😔🥰
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I really love this. It repays each repeat reading with new thrills - "ouroboros of chaos" is a great coup - the rhythms of "I pulled you from the heat of a press release to mask the cracks in the walls". The corset-structure allows play, as in how you run on to "...and now you are the walls". Fab!♥️👏
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Yes! Thank you indeed. Just exactly the phenomenology I was trying to capture 🙏♥️🙏
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Thank you so much Merril for lovely feedback and I am happy that you pick up on the ferocities of sound 🙏❤️🙏
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Many congratulations Merril 👏👏👏
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#PoemsAbout #FierceBattle thank you so much Dorian for the deep read: wonderful and so very interesting feedback! I shall think about it some more, I already made a small revision I now will have to revisit. I am still trying to digest your own poem, more on that anon🥰
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Thank you so much Andy 🙏❤️🙏
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Thank you very much Sue 🙏❤️🙏
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Thank you John, yes, sorry about that! Whatever became of the duties of the guest? But thank you for bearing with its eyepokingness 🙄🥰