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In the agonizing sightlessness of the dark, she crawls to regain her consciousness and balance the scales where two minds live inside her very core...one defiant, livid with a sudden vile anger flung unto beloved kin-- The other granting joy's luster through her kind nature, endowing an essence rosy as morning petals-- oh cheerful, vigorous amid the outburst of rain. Until she swings like a pendulum, ghastly once more, tearing hours into unbearable screams... at fault is the one charged of insolence, while her half-part shrinks behind a dainty veil But that makes two of them , one face ripping the other...muddled, desperate in life's torment uncertain if she is dangling back and forth where mother moon leads the way to the path of soundness, graciously. Maureen McGreavy's The I of the Storm 12/5/2018

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Date: 12/11/2018 11:39:00 PM
Best wishes and sincere congratulations for your win in Maureen's contest, Nette - keep up the great work, and I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season! :-) <3
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Date: 12/11/2018 11:56:00 AM
The human body is simple, yet complex in so many ways. You have expressed this with so much feeling and emotion. Congratulations nette, on this win. ~ Brandy
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Date: 12/11/2018 9:15:00 AM
You've caught well Nette this strange contradictory affliction (called manic-depressive when I suffered it as a young man, a more apt description it seems to me). Congrats on the win.
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Date: 12/10/2018 8:58:00 PM
Congrats on your win, nette. Superbly done.
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Date: 12/10/2018 1:56:00 PM
A gripping read Nette, well done. Congratulations on your win, xomo!
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Date: 12/9/2018 12:11:00 PM
Hi Nette, I think that we should try and understand bi-polar people by exercising more empathy and not just consider it as a disease! The frustration that pi-polar patients experience must be horrific and must torment their very soul. Great write, Good luck Jennifer.
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Date: 12/7/2018 1:02:00 AM
Very touching in so many ways, I have been down this road.
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Date: 12/5/2018 12:37:00 PM
Well done, Nette! You have capably captured the opposing shifts in moods and the many emotional ups and downs of this mental condition. I see a sure winner. Hugs // paul
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Date: 12/5/2018 11:53:00 AM
At the flick of a switch it'll be glaciers or blue flame. An extraordinary picture painted with the right wording! Blessings
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Date: 12/5/2018 6:03:00 AM
You are in the I of the storm...with this great verse nette...ready for a win my friend...love & light...^WW^
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Date: 12/5/2018 1:59:00 AM
- Thanks and bravo, Nette ... an important theme - Luck in the contest :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 12/4/2018 4:04:00 PM
It would be easier for Donald Trump to accept transgender than bi-polar, perhaps because he does not have a clue that everyone is a different combination of DNA. Thank you for shedding some light on this condition, and good luck in the contest! Aloha! Rico
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Date: 12/4/2018 4:02:00 PM
Amazing poetry and a special highlight, of an awful condition..love your poem, nette.
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Date: 12/4/2018 3:59:00 PM
An awful condition to have, always at war with yourself. Tom
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Date: 12/4/2018 3:48:00 PM
Wonderfully described in these captivating words: and balance the scales where two minds live inside her very core...one defiant, livid with a sudden vile anger flung unto beloved kin--The other granting joy's luster through her kind nature, endowing an essence rosy as morning petals-- oh cheerful, vigorous amid the outburst of rain. It would be hard to live with both worlds peacefully..a condition faced by many. Best for a win, nette.
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Date: 12/4/2018 2:57:00 PM
good write...it sounds like without meds...but our popular culture is not all that philosophically helpful when it come to people with problems
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