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Les peupliers bleus - Andre Brasilier

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expend effort to stay still to let all around me cool a calm exterior quell outward sign of distress I'll meander I can run, I can run, I can run! ~ if I need to ~ there's no immediate threat this day's sun will set plunge me into darkness cloak me close down every sensation and thought throw a blanket over me cover my eyes allow night to fall let nothing wake me until the grass is greener this blue doesn't threaten to engulf me ...and I don't feel so utterly alone

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Arthur Vaso

Date: 11/6/2024 11:17:00 PM

Love the poem and painting!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/6/2024 11:49:00 PM

Thank you Arthur - the painting hit just right in the moment.

Suzette Richards

Date: 11/5/2024 11:20:00 AM

Mesmerising and hauntingly beautiful, DD. Love the accent. FAV --- you really are on a roll. :)

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/5/2024 11:36:00 AM

Hey, what's going on here?! I might have put a spell on people inadvertently with my Manchester accent haha who knew that could happen :) thank you for your kind words, much appreciated x

I Am Anaya

Date: 11/5/2024 9:53:00 AM

I like a poem that is well honed crafted and crystallized like an expertly cut gem. Best gifts come in small packages. You've captured it Dilly, for sure for sure. OmG below, my eyes caught the word Zumba, must have been some photons in my way. lol. I've been Zumbaing for over 15yrs. I love the hula hoop hula hula hula hoop song, it's came and went over here. I used to sing it to the niece's little ones. Bruno Mars too!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/5/2024 10:30:00 AM

Aww thank you :) that kind of music I'd usually turn off but it grew on me, quite tribal really haha. It's only my 3rd class but I was in sync with the instructor several times this time and felt in the zone. I was singing it to the dog when I got in and every time I stopped he jumped up with two paws on my chair so I'd do the dance with him again :D

Ink Empress

Date: 11/5/2024 3:05:00 AM

Dear DD, wow i love your voice! And how you read too, you read like a professional spoken word artist, do you do them there , iv heard of so many spoken word events in the uk! And what a deep piece of art youv interpreted. The grass is always greener on the other side, and sometimes its strange when we look back too, we feel like the grass was greener back then: in my case, its the sea thats greener, some days, and when the sun sets and plunges me into darkness, and when sky is grey sea no longer is so green, but still theres hope and in all that, somehow we learn to breathe , through all shades of blues and greens! Love this one! Should i fave it? Yes! Because i love poems that make me feel and you did that in few words which i wish i could do! Love this! Another fave!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/5/2024 3:10:00 AM

Thank you Ink, no I've never done any spoken word. I've got several to choose from locally but just never made the decision to go. I'm not sure what I'd choose to read out, so many of my poems don't actually say anything and it's sometimes necessary to know my body of poems to understand what's beneath an individual one. Time is a funny thing and the observation of it from different points. Poetry is so powerful in capturing it and moving you through it. That's the value for me x (ooh you wrote a bit more after I'd replied - another fave! I'm going to need a painting of a prancing horse to show how pleased I am haha thank you!)

Paul Willason

Date: 11/4/2024 9:25:00 PM

An absolutely exquisite poem for me...comes to life when listening to your reading of it DD. There is an internal music to the way it unfolds. I confess I like your poem more than the painting, ... more emotionally charged.

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/4/2024 11:36:00 PM

Thank you Paul, your presence in my comment thread a delight! Thank you for stopping by to read and listen - certainly emotionally charged. I felt a bit guilty leaving the emotion in the audio rather than re-recording it but as I mentioned below there is an element of catching a moment sometimes.

David Kavanagh

Date: 11/4/2024 12:11:00 PM

You have become the painting yet again Dilly, I doubt if the horse is obliviously feeding on the best and most dangerous grass, indeed it can run and run and run if need be, love the switch to the other hemisphere of its brain, where comfort and protection is dominant, a wonderfully poised piece with the ever present hint of menace from those foreboding woods, brilliant! Cheers David

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/4/2024 2:18:00 PM

Now you are getting way out of my depth lol!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/4/2024 1:47:00 PM

Perhaps but I'm also the poet currently trying to teach the dog a dance move lol :)

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/4/2024 1:26:00 PM

I wonder if the mind actually does scrub most of the progression of time out, or record it into the subconscious for poets like you to deconstruct, yeah that must be it!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/4/2024 1:13:00 PM

Well I've just stepped out of the gym after Zumba'ing to the Hula Hoop song, so I might have danced all my fight or flight out of me. Thanks for spending some time with this one - sometimes it's just necessary to capture something in a poem to reflect on and also watch the progression as time passes. The mind scrubs a lot out otherwise.

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 11/4/2024 11:13:00 AM

I enjoyed reading your wonderful write. I also enjoyed your picture... Have a fun day writing away.............

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/4/2024 11:26:00 AM

You do make me smile Paula, thank you :)

Lin Lane

Date: 11/4/2024 9:37:00 AM

You'd make a dilly of a brave palomino all alone in the pasture. I've seen you express yourself and there's nothing skittish about you, filly.

Di11y Da11y
Date: 11/4/2024 9:46:00 AM

Cute! Thanks Lin x