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Reveal the Word

So many minds have written words, not just any words but the words that are already on the paper.  When I sit down to work I have to think about what I am writing and when I sit I will pick up a pen and write, and revise, and write; probably.  But sitting in a plane the other day I wrote.  The words just flowed.  All I had was a small tablet I carry for emergencies.  I had looked out the window and it was getting dark.  There were holes in the sky.  They were dark, indigo in color and that is what the poem that revealed itself to me said; it said the same, indigo blue.  It went like this ( not edited) Holes in the sky/Darkening to indigo /Blue; We grew til/ the stars of the north/ formed a pattern we knew.  Stories into truths/that were lived;/Once upon a time I knew/ that song, just give me,/me my moment when/stars tell stories I know,/ I'll show you the heaven/with sunsets glow.-daw Titled, Dusk Turns.  Now I'm saying there is something to be said for just revealing what is written on the page.

 

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And like an archeologist of letters and sounds, we sift through the sands we call paper until words we never knew are found and written and shared with the hungry world. For it is with words we reach across the ravages of time to speak to our distant relatives.

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Your words pleased my mind aesthetically.

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Interesting Point

I have poems that I've worked and reworked, revised and polished, that others (whom I respect) have yawned at when they read them.

I have some other poems that have come to me (often in mostly one piece, often just as I awaoke early in the morning) -as yours has come to you- that, in addition to pleasing me greatly, have received very high praise from those same respected readers.

For what it's worth, I enjoyed yours very much, esp the close:

I'll show you the heaven
with sunset's glow

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Interesting point

So often true. Thank you.