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Everywhere I look I see you,
I see us. This fragile hand,
this blue pen, this yellow pad.
These fingers gently folded,
Embracing the eagerness of
your movements across the page.
This tender paper accepting
All we write. These words that
rise up and lay down, so simple.
You are what I feel. This beating heart,
this circling breath, this wide sphere of
silence that enfolds us. Your soft sigh.
The day waits. It pours out of us whole
and clear, unending. How kind you are.
Kindness like flowers falling everywhere.
By Deborah J. Brasket, “Morning Prayer”
Painting by Odilon Redon
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This is wonderful Deborah. I love the feel and flow.
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Thank you Brad. So glad you enjoyed. It means so much.
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Beautiful Deborah, this poem has its own music that hangs on the breeze long after the last word is recited.
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Aww, thank you so much Terrill. I love the way you put that. ❤ Makes me happy to hear it.
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Such a Sunday Morning type of poem, Deborah.
🙂
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Thank you, I thought so too
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This is a beautiful, profound little poem, Deborah! It’s aptly titled as a “Morning Prayer.” Soft and mysterious, filled with an intimate silence that leaves one feeling sanctified.
This kind of writing reminds me of B. Nina Holzer’s lovely little book, “A Walk Between Heaven and Earth,” A Personal Journal on Writing and the Creative Process, where she writes:
“Talking to paper is talking to the divine. Paper is infinitely patient. Each time you scratch on it, you trace part of yourself, and thus part of the world, and thus part of the grammar of the universe. It is a huge language, but each of us tracks his or her particular understanding of it.”
It’s on the back of her book, and was edited down from a larger entry. You can read that whole quote in this blog post: https://theuncarvedblog.com/2014/08/20/burghild-nina-holzer-inspires-us-to-write-and-discover-who-we-are-and-what-we-have-to-say/.
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Thank you so much, Ken. That book sounds lovely, and I love the quote. I’ll have to check it out. The part about tracing yourself, becoming part of that universal grammar–beautiful. It does seem like that sometimes to me. Each of us in our own unique ways writing ourselves into the universe.
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Yes! I thought you might like that quote and book. I recommend it to a lot of my writing friends. BTW, I tried Reblogging your post, but had difficulty with the poem’s spacing. So I am entering the poem in a new post, with the title linking back to your post. All you have to do is accept the pingback when it shows up. So please remove the automatic Reblogged comment below this one since it no longer exists.
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Reblogged this on The Uncarved Blog and commented:
Enjoy this beautiful, profound little poem by Deborah J. Brasket. It’s aptly titled a “Morning Prayer.” Soft and mysterious, it’s filled with an intimate silence that leaves you feeling sanctified.
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Thank you for the reblog Ken!
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Just left you a message about that. I’m doing it another way, which I explain above in the previous reply.
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On second thought, you can leave the Reblogging comment if you like, just change the link when I post it. Up to you. Thanks.
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Deborah, a fellow poet and publisher friend posted this comment on the Reblog of your poem, which I took down to replace with a new post: freddyniagarafonseca
Thank you. Nice. I wish that more poets would write in such simple, direct ways, instead of inundating us with their endlessly convoluted poems running in circles that we’re seeing way too often.
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Thanks for sharing that comment, Ken. And I really appreciate the reblog too.
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Your beautiful little poem is being very well received. Another friend sent in a comment, which she now included on the blog post. https://theuncarvedblog.com/2021/03/21/this-little-poem-morning-prayer-by-deborah-j-brasket-just-might-leave-you-feeling-sanctified/#comment-285787
Still waiting for another friend to post his comment. If he doesn’t, I’ll send it to you. I also added into the post what a writer-artist friend said, in answer to my question, how she understood and appreciated the poem.
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Here it is now: https://theuncarvedblog.com/2021/03/21/this-little-poem-morning-prayer-by-deborah-j-brasket-just-might-leave-you-feeling-sanctified/
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I am in love with the energy in this poem and the delicate words and pacing you chose. I feel myself in this intimate space, breathing and aware of being held within it. Thank you so much for sharing these details of your heart moving through everything around you 💗🌸💗
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Thank you so much, Ka, for your lovely comment. That means a lot to me.
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Great poetry
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Thank you!
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