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Kathryn Anna Marshall's avatar

I really like this Margaret - clever and tender all at once. You arrange words beautifully!

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Thank you so much, Kathryn!

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LeeAnn Pickrell's avatar

I'm so glad you're writing poetry again. This is a gem.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Thank you so much, LeeAnn 💛.

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Kristine Neeley's avatar

Oh... this one. *sobs*

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

My “heart” button isn’t working but it’s all I want to send back to you!!!

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Tara Connor's avatar

Beautiful, and a great read for me right now as I'm feeling so depleted, poetically. But it will come back. Thanks for the reminder. xoxo

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

I’m so glad it speaks to you. It will come back! (and it doesn’t seem to have left, judging by your weekly poems and Public Domain poems; but I know appearances are deceiving).

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MK Creel's avatar

The slant and fragile script of the heart. Yes.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

You found the lines that I have always been most attached to :). I’m not very good at “kill your darlings” yet.

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Judith Silver's avatar

Lovely as you....modern day mystic...being stripped and purged continually for the heart to be opened more and spill forth such depth and beauty for all. Thank you.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Thank you, Mom. It was really hard to be without words, but it makes me so thankful now that they're back (more prone to cherish them).

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Mary Pierce's avatar

I haven't the words to say how deeply this touched me. I know that place. Love love love it! ❤️

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Oh Mary—thank you so much! This was the only “real” poem I wrote for many years, and I’ve always cherished it because it came out of a totally dry, empty time (creatively).

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Francesca Bossert's avatar

Beautiful, Margaret. I know those feelings.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Thank you, Francesca. It’s been comforting to have people say they get those feelings—I think at the time, when I didn’t have any kind of writing community, I thought I was just broken.

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Joe Luca's avatar

Wondrous

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Thank you so much, Joe!

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Oooh. I feel this. Yeah. This country I know it.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

I love that you get it (and several other people have said the same thing). It’s so crazy how you can feel exiled from a place in your head/or an invisible place in the world? I still don’t know how to describe it but it’s definitely a place.

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Kym VdP's avatar

Oh I love this so much Margaret! 💛💛💛 And I say that a lot but this one hits me in a different way ✨

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Thank you, Kym! Seeing how you and others relate so much to this poem makes me hopeful that I will fight more for the words next time I become “exiled.” Around the time I wrote this, I had almost given up completely on trying to write.

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