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Sarah Cauble's avatar

Those sunsets! Your beautiful words! ❤️ 🌅 ✍️

Adriana Chupak's avatar

Oh my word, absolutely beautiful skies❤️‍🔥

Janetta's avatar

Those skies! I'm gobsmacked

Kevin's avatar
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Even the brilliant snaps of sunset photos this week all reveal a fading light of the summer, which matches to the wistful tone of your text about the house now being less noisy, less chaotic, and painfully empty. And it did bring to mind some philosophical writing I did recently exploring loss, not just as the absence of the joy we knew, but as the opportunity to make room for the happiness we will know. However, sometimes the “right words” are not as helpful as we would like. It seems too complicated for this moment of reflection by you and Sarah, and I decided to share a lyrical quatrain anaphora poem I wrote recently for someone else, who also… just ‘needed a hug’.

A hug

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I want to hug you:

To protect the love we share

To honor the truth we dare

To show the world we care

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I want to hold you:

To begin your everyday

To be with you in every way

To let you know - it’s okay

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I want you in my arms:

So that you won’t depart

So close within my heart

So much like a lost art

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I want to embrace you:

To have nothing to forgive

To share a life we want to live

To offer all I have to give

Shannon's avatar

Was the bumblebee alive? If so- how did you not get stung???