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No Answers But Echoes

There are no answers, just the outgoing tide leaving a poem written in the sand to be washed away when the tide comes in again. I am lost in the detail, the exquisite swirls and rippled script of its creation, I explore each worm excavated hole as if it hides a secret truth within when I know it doesn't. Meaning is beyond the cycles of the tides, beyond my mind and even this world - it is written across the shoreline of the infinite echoing like a seashell in the places I have never been able to fill.

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Date: 2/1/2025 10:43:00 AM
Ah Paul.. I hope you are also a painter but if not you fill the empty page with such exquisite language that I can visualise the moment that captured your attention. Poets are tasked to explain the unexplainable, to capture the infinite and articulate the fleeting. You do this with aplomb. I am glad you are here. Blessings S:) x
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Paul Willason
Date: 2/3/2025 3:14:00 PM
Hi Sam....I do apologise for the delayed response to your gracious comments. Thankyou so much for such positive and thoughtful words, quite a honor. Regrettably my skills as a painter never matched my hopes..always found I could frame something better in words....even to attempt to wrestle with the unexplainable ...I seem to be drawn to the challenge with limited success. Take care my friend...
Date: 1/28/2025 2:05:00 AM
Hauntingly beautiful Paul! Debx
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Paul Willason
Date: 2/3/2025 3:02:00 PM
Many thanks Deb....sorry for the delayed reply. As always, value your kind words. Take care, Paul
Date: 1/22/2025 6:08:00 AM
Hello Paul, As I read this, I thought about how your words feel like stepping barefoot into a sacred tidepool. Each line carries the weight of longing and the lightness of surrender. I guess that we all carry that. A great read this morning! Winter Blessings, My Friend, Daniel
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Paul Willason
Date: 2/3/2025 2:59:00 PM
Hi Daniel...appreciate your thought provoking comments. Good to learn how a poem lands in the mind of the reader...eloquently expressed...thankyou for your kindness. Paul
Date: 1/22/2025 5:14:00 AM
Ahh the in-between, the edge, the cusp - the disappearing truth before we can be fully cognisant of it! Such a zoomed out approach of the marks we make that disappear so quickly depending on perspective. Interesting read, enjoyed :)
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Paul Willason
Date: 2/3/2025 2:55:00 PM
Thanks Dilly for wading into this one...the shallows shelve off into some strange depths...pleased that you enjoyed. Take care , Paul

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