It is a truth
Universally acknowledged
That a poet can only truly speak
The truth of their own life
The deepest flattery
Is when we are told
That our explosive rush of words
Resonates for someone else
That our trembling unveiling
Of our deepest selves
Has touched that deep
Secret part of another’s heart
This lessens our isolation
Writing poetry is an inherently solitary
Reflective and lonely
Walk into the wilderness
Of our own hearts and souls
Full of unexpected detours
Buried memories and hopes
Hidden hunter’s snares
Unanticipated crossroads
That we must stand before
And make a choice
To embrace one of our truths
At the expense of another
I am constantly learning
And relearning
My own inner terrain
Trying to map
This ever shifting landscape
To create a guidebook
To document this poet’s journey
And share my small truths
With the world
Brave & Reckless 
Wonderful. It’s so comforting also when you read your own inner truths in another’s writing.
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Truth. Although I have had the disturbing experience of thinking, “So this is what I’d write like if I was a man. . . ” 😉
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Haha, but I don’t think that’s so disturbing. I think sometimes I write like a man and sometimes like a woman – we all have masculine and feminine traits.
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Fair enough. Perhaps I should point that it was erotica that I was reading at the time!
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Aha okay, I guess that could be slightly different.
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Love this. The way I am
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This is amazing, you’ve done exactly what you’ve said in the poem!
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Thank you Lois!
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Wonderful poem. You captured the essence of poetry!
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Thank you Oldepunk!
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Your words let us know we’re not alone…that our feelings are real and valid. You’re able to write what many of us cannot even speak.
Thank you.
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Thank you Miss Felicia! Its support and encouragement like yours that keep me trying to articulate those things that tickle the recesses of my brain.
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Yes indeed, timely it is. I needed this today!
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Glad that it helped!
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Precisely this. I think these thoughts often. Such elements are vital to the collective muse of the human experience. A wonderful poem!
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Thank you Max!
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Wow that was strange. I just wrote an really
long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear.
Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyway, just
wanted to say wonderful blog!
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That’s happened to me also. Now I copy my response before hitting enter. If the server eats it, I can just paste and try again.
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