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LeeAnn Pickrell's avatar

Ah, this is beautiful.

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Weston Parker's avatar

Thank you LeeAnn.

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Faye Boam's avatar

I love these lines. I could steep in them forever.

You push me gently

below the waterline,

unseen but constant

and I lift you.

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Weston Parker's avatar

I like that steeping idea, I've read some things that have hit me below my conscious mind, below the waterline and I just want to keep repeating them, mulling them over and over because I know, my instincts tell me there something important for me here. It's a cool feeling

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Faye Boam's avatar

It is... like a ripple that the keeps reaching outward and inward and deeper all at the same time

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Jessica Rath's avatar

Oh no, now I can't get the song out of my head -- June Carter/Johnny Cash cover. "I gave you my onlyness, give me your tomorrow."

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Weston Parker's avatar

Yeah, that song played through my head the whole time too.

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Stanley Wotring's avatar

Lovely!

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House of Neglected Poetry's avatar

I wish there were more water wheels! I only know of a few in very old (not so old) towns here in CA. Lovely poem, Weston.

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Weston Parker's avatar

Thank you sir. This town is about 1,000 years old and up until the 1960's they were still using them for grinding. This town, L'Isle Sur La Sorgue, still has about 15.

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House of Neglected Poetry's avatar

That is amazing! To have such history is almost impossible for us Yankees to imagine. Please do enjoy such things, for all of us!

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Weston Parker's avatar

Yeah, isn't is amazing.

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Berkana's avatar

Creating images

The way a love poems

💕

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Weston Parker's avatar

I think so too. Thank you.

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Weston Parker's avatar

Thanks Cheryl. Isn't that moss great?

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Weston Parker's avatar

I love moss. Laurie's parents have a cabin on an island in Maine where the moss is sometime 8" thick. Last few years we played bocce in the moss and that was just too much fun.

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