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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2020-07-19 08:33 AM

I am a poet
through and through,
driven to do what poets do:
to feel,
to dream,
to hope,
to care,
to remember,
to search,
to write,
to share,
to question,
to cry,
to learn,
to die
and leave behind words...
my words
rather than dust or ashes.

Ida Werrett

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2020-07-19 08:49 AM

When my grandmother passed away I was 18 years old. She left no will and I remember all her family members gathering like vultures and fighting over everything she had. Everyone but me. Before she had passed my grandmother had left me all of her poetry.

Everything else everyone may have fought for and obtained I am sure is gone today, save for maybe some photographs. I have her soul on paper though...and I can touch her anytime I want just by reading what she left for us. That's exactly what poets do. They leave a little piece of their soul in everything they write.

I love you ink, Ida.

Michael

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

2 posted 2020-07-19 09:20 AM

love this Ida, poet have so many things to do, specially thinking
yann

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

3 posted 2020-07-19 09:28 AM

Ida, This, & You are in deed special,
Love it!

also loved Michael's reply.

Sky~

Sometimes..Miracles are just good people
with kind hearts~

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

4 posted 2020-07-19 03:24 PM

IDA...What a sweet honest write. That's what poets do. I had mine willed to my daughter who use to read then almost every night before she passed. She use to say she could read the same poem 10 times and find a different connection and meaning to it each time.

I really loved Michaels reply those poems are his forever memory of his Grandmother.

Thanks for sharing...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2020-07-19 06:23 PM

What wonderful thoughtful replies, Poets.
Your reply fits this poem perfectly Michael.

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

6 posted 2020-07-19 07:05 PM

Sounds like LIFE to me my friend...the growing obscurity of the past and the fascination of future times.

Much Enjoyed,

j.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2020-07-20 01:57 AM

Thank you, Jimmy.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

8 posted 2020-07-20 01:59 AM

Thank you, Jimmy.

Starmcneil 1955
Member
Posts 174
Alberta, Canada

9 posted 2020-07-27 12:14 PM

Yes...you are...said perfectly...so few words to say so much...thank you

Temptress

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

10 posted 2020-08-03 10:58 PM

I love this.
I choose words and ashes.

"How much is real? So much to question
An epidemic of the mannequins
Contaminating everything"

Stone Sour

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

11 posted 2020-08-03 11:04 PM

This is what the Poet does. . . indeed.

Well done. . .

-- That which gives light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl

KJOTT
Member

since 2012-12-26

Posts 87
Canada

12 posted 2020-08-30 02:03 PM

Satisfaction guaranteed! I like the message and its flow.

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