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Hi, I like it, thank you for sharing
2006-01-23 10:36:04 Posted by Latifa ()
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Thanks.
2006-01-23 11:39:38 Posted by Mel ()
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Excellent poem, Mel. Having returned home after Hurricane Katrina to see just what those "deep waters" can do to one's house and possessions, I find myself relating to this poem in an unexpected way. Had I read this poem prior to Aug. 29, 2005, I'd have thought, "Nice poem; I like the imagery." Reading it now, though, I find the last line the most evocative. Water, wind, fire, earth -- all fundamental to God's creation and necessary for life, and all also capable of bringing great destruction and death.
2006-02-11 00:47:28 Posted by Traci (tbjnd1218@yahoo.com)
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Well, someday he will take all of this away. I understand that the power of verse is that the meaning exists beyondeven what the writer intended of themselves. I really don't think much of my writing as having the messages they seem to evoke. I can take no credit for that. You know there is only one place to ever attribute that to.
Thanks again,
Mel
2006-02-12 01:31:41 Posted by Mel ()
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Amen, Mel. I know exactly what you mean. I hesitate sometimes to even call the poems I put into words "my poems." I know God inspires them, and I don't want to ever start thinking they came strictly from some ability of my own making.
A friend of mine is fond of saying that we view life through the filter of our own experiences. I think that filter is what allows each of us to read something into a poem that perhaps the author didn't intend. Poems are sort of like a preacher's messages in that way; the good ones minister to each person where he or she needs ministry.
2006-02-16 20:23:26 Posted by Traci ()
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Love it!!
2006-04-22 15:28:49 Posted by Latifa ()
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