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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

Beautiful.

I lived off and on the street maybe 6 years. Poetry started erupting out of me in the early l990s, before I was homeless. A 4-year dark night of the soul came, and a great deal of luminous and other poetry with it. I knew God existed, whereas before, I had only believed. A black night came, and there was nothing brewing in me but plotting every day how to kill myself, for 16 months. I was resurrected from that dead zone by something clearly not of this world. The first stint at being homeless came and lasted a few years, as more poetry came, some of which I could not assign to my own creation. I was not homeless and more poverty came, I was homeless again, and very little poetry came. V/ery little poetry came since then. Since late 2017, I'm not homeless. I'm 80. I when I wrote poetry, it was because it just came out of me. I did not sit down to try to make a poem. The poem sat me down to show me something about me, about life, and about much more, I came to view all of life as poetry.

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Sheila Glass's avatar

OMG! Your reply, which in fact is itself a poem, literally made me gasp ..an adjective for which I'm struggling to find... it was positively powerful.

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Sloan Bashinsky's avatar

There's nothing like seemingly endless grindings into dust and oblivion to season a soul and however it expresses on this small backwater planet in an unfathomable universe, which I seriously doubt just up and came into being without a little nudge from ... something ...

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Tara Sahgal's avatar

"Test each day and night for ripeness like a melon at the market"..."crucified on the hands of a clock"... I mean honestly, how many perfect images is one poet allowed to access per poem? <3

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Didier Beaugrand's avatar

This one grabbed me deep man! Thanks for the introduction. I will look her up.

Fuck It’s got to be heard!

🙏

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Sophia Mazzella's avatar

I've had this poem sitting in my browser waiting to be read for a week. I'm so glad I finally returned to it, because it's so special. Thank you for adding a little beauty to my day

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Poetic Outlaws's avatar

Thank you so much for reading!

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Sílvia's avatar

Simply beautiful!

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