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Love Or Hate Minichu

ice bound by solitude
as electricity's comfort sputters in doubt
cold intrudes

from vast blind hours
light's sweet after a week without
power

complete
fine lines reroute
heat

ice bound by solitude
light's sweet after a week without
heat

2/28/21

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Jennifer Fenn

Date: 5/6/2021 9:30:00 PM

One cool minichu! Now write one about your cat and enter it in the contest called “A Pet Minichu”.

Jennifer Proxenos

Date: 3/10/2021 10:28:00 AM

What a clever poem Michelle and what a terrible experience - thankfully one can turn to gas when it happens - hope this was not your experience. Congratulations my friend on your much deserved win. Blessings and hugs, Jennifer.

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 3/7/2021 7:54:00 AM

Oh, Michelle, I hope you didn't actually have to go a week without power! That happens after hurricanes in my area, but the bitter cold was unprecedented and surely unwelcome. Hope it's "brighter" now. Congratulations on your win! Hus, carolyn

Alexis Y.

Date: 3/5/2021 8:46:00 AM

Hi Michelle, I'm just coming back to say congratulations on your win. Have a great day:-) Alexis

Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 3/5/2021 6:42:00 AM

Congratulations on the win Michelle! Linda

Mohan Chutani

Date: 3/5/2021 3:53:00 AM

Michelle, thanx for participating in my contest. Your Minichu was perfect but could not figure out directly how love and hate were connected to electric power or its lack of it. Anyway, you stuck to form. Congrats for your placement in my contest. Best. Mohan.

Michelle Faulkner
Date: 3/5/2021 10:35:00 AM

Thanks, Mohan - I meant I love heat (light) and hate being without power! Appreciate the placement-

Gary Radice

Date: 3/3/2021 11:10:00 AM

We take for granted so much in life. I love your timelined (is there such a word??) work. Our thinking and mindset is influenced so much by what goes on around us and our environment. Sometimes I think too much but I like poems that put my mind in overdrive..my misconceptions or not. Cheers - Gary

Gershon Wolf

Date: 3/3/2021 9:02:00 AM

Light's sweet even sans 'a week without!' All the more so, I guess, after such a dark period... Nicely presented, Michelle. (Soup mail, please). :) gw

Rico Leffanta

Date: 3/1/2021 10:35:00 AM

Moved to Texas, did you? Well done! Aloha! Rico

Howard Kerr

Date: 3/1/2021 2:38:00 AM

Hi Michelle. Sorry for the delay in responding to your encouraging words on my Minichu. They are really appreciated by me. Your Minichu is in a class of its own. Superb imagery and narrative. Well done Howard

Gershon Wolf

Date: 2/28/2021 6:23:00 PM

Fine write; total truth too! Clever as ever here. G.L. in the contest, Michelle! Smiles, Gershon

Michelle Faulkner
Date: 2/28/2021 9:10:00 PM

This came from my recent experience with losing power for (over) a week, thanks for the comment - and smiles :)

Alexis Y.

Date: 2/28/2021 5:50:00 PM

Hi Michelle, This is a good entry for the contest theme. Best wishes in the contest. Have a great evening:-) Alecis

Michelle Faulkner
Date: 2/28/2021 9:09:00 PM

Thank you kindly, Alexis, you as well!