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What a splendid poem. 👌 I enjoy your work!

Here's one back:

sun showers

the honeysuckle--

kisses wild & sweet

Sorry, this is not the same season as yours!! The above is a forthcoming haiku of mine

in the Haiku Northwest 35th Anthology, 2024.

I'm a retired teacher/professor of English,

a hermit becoming happy

again. Thank you.

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Thank you Sherry! Such a compliment to come from a professor of English 🙏Your haiku is beautiful! Congratulations on having it published.

The last line of your comment is the most blessed of all... 'a hermit becoming happy again' 💛

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Gorgeous, a really beautiful ode to a simple life..

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Thank you Sinead 💛

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I love the comfort of the warm and familiar. 💞💞💞

I feel this piece deeply. 💞

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Thank you Dawn, me too! 💛

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I loved this poem.I'd tell my younger self to not worry about what people thought of her and have more confidence to be herself - loved magazines too back in the day, I had stacks of them and used to re-read the over and over!

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Yes Jenna! I wonder can we find that deep-seated confidence as teenagers or is it all the living that brings it.💛

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That's such a good point, the confidence comes from living I think. It's the comparison that was all consuming back then too.

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This has spun me off in many swirls.

A few minutes beside the fire.

A wind down and a sharing of what is because once, it was.

Mmmmmm.

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I love how you and others found yourself by the fire, when no fires are mentioned... the magic of poetry 💫 Thank you for your kind words Matthew 💛

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There is the light of autumn and the crisp coolness of the air in this poem.

Your question in the end is an interesting one- I’m going to ponder it for a while…🍁

PS « Cosmo »… 🤦🏻‍♀️that has brought memories !

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I think I would cringe to re-read some of those Cosmo magazines 🤣 I am pretty sure my teenage self wouldn't listen to me. She knew everything!!

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Love this, makes me feel warm and cosy, like I an sitting with you beside the fire, reminiscing.

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