Selfish is vanity, thin skin needful of blubber to resist the freeze. For years in the future, what will it matter, if you were plain?
Some of the best people have warts, kankles, pot bellies, their radiance is not in exquisite feature.
So Freckled Girl, wishing you had fuller lips, higher cheekbones, darker skin; remember … when the lights go out, we’ll all have to learn brail.
Touching our way by coral reef, they said, things of love couldn’t live in the dark, without spotlights and balster.
Yet I suspect you couldn’t love me more if I were every kind of gorgeous creature, for the dream we inhabit began before we found shape and color and calcium.
When we swam informed and feeling, in warm soup, passing by the delight of one another, as rubbing softly, life is evoked from so little, as branches create friction and in time, fire.
Amazing, Candice. Let’s live in that place of acceptance.
Thank you so much lovely maria I am so grateful for your words
You are a beautiful person Candice, inside and out. π
That is a lovely thing to say. I am very lucky to ‘know’ you here on WP-land thank you for being such a ray of light in this world dearest one
ππ
Brief and beautiful! About love and what it is we see…..and don’t. Thank you for sharing your gifts! I’ll be back to read and feel this one again.
Thank you dearest one
Magnificent. To seek the divine in others is sadly an afterthought
Thank you so much for reading this and liking it
Wonderful as always
Thank you so much dearest one
You are welcome lovely
I have been thinking of you,, I hope you are ok. Love you sister
Love you also talented and beautiful girl
I just love this.
I love all your work my friend so it is a huge honor when you like mine thank you so much for your support – you inspire me
Always, love. ππ
Love it. Love it. Love it more β€οΈ
There she is! Sending you moonbeams and love sister
Receiving them ππΌβ€οΈ
Candice, to repeat what others have said, I love this. LOVE it!!
Thank you dearest Betty so much. I wrote another with you in mind, you are quite the inspiration for me – many times I think of you whilst writing I think that is the evocation of poets touching one another across the universe.
I too think we poets all touch each other across the universe. The evocation of poets – that’s poetic all by itself. Such phrases flow from you so easily and purely. All your writing is beautiful including your prose. π»
I agree. I think poetry is so underrated. I for one have always written and read it but still I find it mystical and a mystery. The only other thing that comes close to that, is love.
Yes! That’s it in a nutshell. Poetry is the closest thing to love when it comes to our humanity. It’s a mystery, a mystical experience, a sacred ritual of expression, the bearing of souls, the lifting of spirits.
Absolutely beautiful
Full of love & acceptance at every level β€οΈ
Dearest Lamar, I hope you are well my beautiful friend? Thank you so much for stopping by my blog it’s always such a pleasure to see you here
Hello π all is well
anytime I go to read your words I fall in love – your writings capture my mind & heart
We’re just gorgeously adorable – all of us π
Totally agree and you help me remember that
π
Oh how I love this! Freckled girl that I am never minded her freckles until others started making of them. Then one day on the street a total stranger said I’ll bet you;ve been teased about those freckles of yours that are making such a pretty face. And so I finally gave up the pursuit of ridding my face of it’s freckles. You have to most uncanny way of reaching underneath the skin of your readers and touching where it has hurt or hurts yet. Je t’aime, N π <3
Exactly! So true! I try (to reach beneath and touch where it has hurt – wonderful description of my efforts!)
You do it almost every time I read something of yours. And the really uncanny thing is they are things I rarely or most often never spoken of to anyone! You simply amaze me and touch me in ways that none other doβ£οΈπ
Maybe all that prayer and mutual things in common means we inhabit one another’s dreams a little and that’s why I get close sometimes?
Could be! I actually think we may be sisters separated at birth or something or I’m just extremely transparent!πππβ€οΈπ
PS of course if we are sisters I must be younger than I think and feel!!! πππ
Deeply beautiful.
Thank you so much dear friend
Oh that is fabulous! You evoke such imagery and I linger on what you say for hours π
There she is! Waves! Hope you are well lovely girl – thank you for stopping by!
Waving like a mad loon back at you!!
Oh I love the way you think! (waves back madly!)
Great minds eh π
Most def!
Clever, thoughtful, moving.
Dear Ben thank you so much my friend
Wow.
It is good to see you here my friend I hope you are well – thank you for stopping by dear Harriet
This piece made me swoon.
“So Freckled Girl, wishing you had fuller lips, higher cheekbones, darker skin; remember β¦ when the lights go out, weβll all have to learn brail.”
I’m closing my eyes, disappearing into music, and breathing in the poetry rising from your skin to your pencil to my freckles to my nose.
Your essence is gorgeous.
Dearest Lilly (reminds me of the Kate Bush song by the same name) thank you so much! I so appreciate you xo
YES! That’s it, exactly that!
Thank you for finding the words π
Thank you so much lovely Dawn
Reblogged this on The Militant Negroβ’.
You honor me S
You know you do magnificent work with your magnificent talent.
Blush. Thank you S. You know you reach many, many people with your heart
I have to let you know that your talents are phenomenal. And I am not the only one who believes you are a gifted artist.
That is a lovely compliment and from you I take it and humbly bow. I often think of what it would be like to give up this life and do something very different then I think of you and how you did that and I feel a great deal of admiration for the guts that took. I am not sure I can (logistically/financially) but if I were able, I’d do exactly what you have done, you did the right thing, and I admire you deeply for it
Long live human variety, death to the machine! π
You’re spoiling me with the BEST conments! I laughed so hard!
Haven’t seen anything by you for a while so I was really glad when this turned up in my email. It is amazing. It made me weep with the truth of it. Beautiful beautiful beautiful. I’d be very happy with myself if I’d written that. Just know this – you have a rare talent.
Love,
Sara x
Nice post
Left me with a warm feeling..