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Olive Zenith's avatar

This is beautiful

WritingWithWater's avatar

breathing....embracing what has been uttered....putting my poem "Utterance" beside it.....my experience of this.... and remembering St. Therese of Avila (who i will always love):

"Christ has no body now but yours,

No hands, no feet on earth but yours,

Yours are the eyes with which he looksCompassion on this world,

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,

Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.

Yours are the hands,

Yours are the feet,

Yours are the eyes,

You are his body.

Christ has no body now but yours."

Vivien Beere's avatar

Mm indeed. Beautiful.

Kristen Selvey's avatar

I'm putting my wish out into the universe. My wish to see a just, kind, loving world for all. We will break these chains together ❤️

Julia Minutillo's avatar

Keep us together... Running in the shadows

Saswat's avatar

The journey and power of word, is shown in this poem with a unique perspective...

Alexa's avatar

The meaning we each recognize has found a way to bring us together, how beautiful it was to read your poem out loud, to imagine your other readers being touched, making space for the emergence of words beyond meaning to touch and go.

Stephanie M. Vargo's avatar

I traced the path of the word through your poem. I think of ears there to receive it, the vibrations, the waves. The anonymity of the utterance until it is received. That is what resonated for me.

David Getman Jr's avatar

Thank you, Antonio for a wonderful read

Most Excellent

Starlight's avatar

"And even now,

it seeks the same thing:

not an answer,

not a confirmation,

not applause.

A listening.

Because the word passes.

Crosses.

Continues.

And when it finds someone

willing to listen completely,

the oldest miracle occurs:

something recognizes something."

There were a lot of parts of this that can be recognized, but these words really stuck with me.

Stephanie ♡'s avatar

This is exquisite, Antonio. Thank you for these words and this message. I receive them within my dwelling. 🙏

The Secret Ingredient's avatar

"As one encounters fire

already sleeping inside stone."

That image is exquisite. Fire exists as a possibility long before the spark. You are suggesting that words may exist in a similar way—waiting to be recognized, awakened, spoken.

Leonora Ross's avatar

This is lovely. I read it out loud to listen to what your words sound like - for them to linger in the air before my mind absorbed them. This brings to mind The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Truth somehow always feels familiar.

Julia Minutillo's avatar

Your children are not your children. ....

Life's longing for itself

Leonora Ross's avatar

Marvellous!

Kelly Trost's avatar

The word is not born

when it is spoken.

It is born

when it is recognized.

Hello WritingWithWater, this, your very personal and unique concept, is so beautifully written that I read it a second and a third time. You are such a fine, fine poet...

Bridget's avatar

Beautifully written!

What comes to my mind is intention which stirs the silence and initiates the movement.

Estevan's avatar

This is good. I like it.

Sincerely Seb's avatar

This is such a clever breakdown of not only how words provide a means of creating, but of how everything created is connected down to even the smallest building blocks, through vibration and movement.

Julia Minutillo's avatar

It's... A movement that encourages movement

Julia Minutillo's avatar

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