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Note: this post and the Maeberrie series poems are all part of the “Deep Water” category.
May you be well and safe from quakes and droughts and floods and fires and storms, and everything severe. May you be surrounded by love.
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She remembers
the future
when rain
crashes deserts
and old seeds
explode
into rivers of lupine
and mountains lean
a little closer to the sea
and there is no abyss
to slice reality.
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(c) 1994, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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Add to these songs Josh Krajcik’s “Let Me Hold You”….
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Seasonings 
Beautiful. Thankyou. Stay true.
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I love that line, ‘She remembers the future’. This poem, for me, is about hope and I think it’s written beautifully.
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Betty, in remembering a future without any abyss, you remind me of some research into certain particles that are thought to travel faster than the speed of light, which makes them appear to go backwards in time; i.e. remembering the future going so fast ALL abysses disappear, become entirely irrelevant. I believe that we are truly synchronized with each other as beings of light, this is what happens!
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such divine simplicity. a lovely collage of words. your work is always stunningly smooth and beautiful
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I love “and mountains lean a little closer to the sea.” It captures the movement of the rest of the poem perfectly.
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I too found the opening lines very engaging.
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This is so amazingly good–I love the “rivers of lupin” best; my, that’s beautiful! Thanks for your recent visits & comments to “my place”–you are the sweetest thing, Betty–I’m glad we’re here together!
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and mountains lean
a little closer
to the sea
and there is no abyss
to slice reality.
Great, great ending.
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So much to get you thinking here…a blooming fertility in the future after the violence of the rain crashing into the desert and the explosion of seeds. Awesome metaphors.
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Love, love, love the opening line “She remembers the future” …superb!!! … and “mountains lean a little closer to the sea”!!! I love the way you put words together 🙂
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Thanks everyone for such nice comments – you’ve all made my day! (Sorry for the group reply – I’m nursing a sore back and can’t sit here long. Hoping to get caught up on reading all YOUR blogs soon.)
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Rivers of lupin…you write so picturesquely perfect!!!
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this is lovely!
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Thank you, Mohana and Story! 🙂
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Inspiring. 🙂
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Thank you, Background Story!
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you changed the last line…
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I’m always trying to make them better… the meaning doesn’t change… does it?
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This is beautiful language, Betty. What a great poem. Love Ethel
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“old seeds
explode
into rivers of lupin”
Aaah …
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