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Shedding Thin Skin

Held unyielding in your narrow mind is the ignorance which keeps you blind. Building dams will only hold you back from accepting that white is not black. Like a slow moving, barricaded stream, your thoughts clot like curdled cream. Thin skin has need to slough rejection, Your rigid stance in mirrored reflection. Break open the dam across the estuary that hinders your vision. It's necessary to move in sync with malleable fluidity instead of sputtering words of stupidity. Shedding skin will allow you to breathe. Release your potential from its sheathe. Even a snake slithers out from its skin to crawl from where it once had been. Little is the chance you have to accept new ideas if they are not circumspect to the fault of having such a closed mind. Throw off the veil that keeps you blind. Don't become stagnant and decompose by turning your back, continuing to oppose any idea with which you just don't agree. You'll drown in arrogance, acting so lordly.

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Date: 11/1/2021 9:12:00 AM
Jenna, Your poem is excellently conceptualized and beautifully crafted. The snake imagery is exactly right for your message. In short, it's a sterling piece of work. I wish I had written it. Hugs, Paul
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Date: 3/31/2021 3:41:00 PM
So so true!! Very nicely written!
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Date: 3/16/2021 12:24:00 PM
What a wonderful write Jenna worthy of POTD. Glad I'm not up to date with the drama on this site, hope you're well and not discouraged!
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/16/2021 12:31:00 PM
I am very well, John. Thanks. To be discouraged by those who find it amusing to spread negativity and ill will would be a weakness. I would never be discouraged by such people.
Date: 3/8/2021 6:55:00 AM
Nicely put...A light in the darkness...Congratulations Jenna Logan on POTD.
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/8/2021 8:06:00 AM
Thank you, Arturo.
Date: 3/7/2021 2:08:00 PM
Wow Jenna, I can think of a few fellows I have met that your poems so perfectly describes. After one date those signs are evident and I ran for the hills. What an excellent poem to be chosen for POTD! Congratulations on your deserving honor my friend. A fave! Blessings xxoo
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/8/2021 8:06:00 AM
Your comments are very encouraging, Connie. I appreciate them so much.
Date: 3/7/2021 7:06:00 AM
This is so well expressed. I see as well that it is POTD. That’s great so that more people will read it. Congrats on the deserved honour. Hugs Rick.
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/7/2021 7:25:00 AM
Thanks so much for your generous thoughts, Rick. I'm honored that you ask me to enter your contest. I will definitely see what you require.
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 3/7/2021 7:08:00 AM
I have a new contest and would be honoured if you would consider entering.
Date: 3/6/2021 6:16:00 PM
Hi, Jenna. Your poem nudged me to look up why snakes shed their skin. The answer surprised me: All reptiles shed their skin,... and even we humans do! For more, see Wikipedia or any other source on the subject... Thanks for the motivation, Jenna, and congrats on your skillfully written POTD! Here's to keeping an open mind! Light and Joy, Gershon
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/7/2021 7:24:00 AM
Thank you. It sounds awful to be compared to a reptile, but then some humans act a bit reptilian at times.
Date: 3/6/2021 6:39:00 AM
reading comments on a blog and your comment to Andrea it seems I've missed so much drama recently Jenna, many congrats of POTD:-) hugs Jan xx shame to read on a blog that some one seems to think limericks arent worthy of potd , they need to get a life - I better get back to writing my 'porn' :-( hugs jan xx
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/6/2021 7:20:00 AM
Jan, your limericks are always worthy of becoming the potd, and though some are bawdy, they're never porn. All you've missed is the same site clowns performing their routine. An encore worthy of a snore.
Date: 3/5/2021 10:45:00 PM
Great imagery, Jenna. Congrats on POTD.
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 11:32:00 PM
Thank you. I was told you are visiting because you were curious about a comment made in a blog. That commenter flatters himself to think my verses are about him, but if that shoe fits...
Date: 3/5/2021 6:39:00 PM
Such wisdom Jenna! Well penned. Congrats on getting POTD!
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 11:32:00 PM
Thank you, Jennifer.
Date: 3/5/2021 5:01:00 PM
I keep a snake skin in my shed pinned on the rafter. So thin to be translucent and floats on the drafts like gossamer, pointing any direction the puffs want it to. This is the poem of the month if you ask me.
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 5:11:00 PM
Hi Ken. Your description of the snake skin is very poetic. Thanks a lot for your kind comments.
Date: 3/5/2021 4:52:00 PM
Jenna, superb rhyming and absolutely deserving of POTD. All the best~ Warren
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 5:09:00 PM
Thanks so much, Warren.
Date: 3/5/2021 12:40:00 PM
Jenna, congratulations on your POTD. Wonderful images illustrating searching out new perspectives, ideas and concepts in mind expanding experiences. All the best!
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:49:00 PM
Thanks so much, Sam.
Date: 3/5/2021 11:08:00 AM
Congrats on POTD Jenna, Nicely done..
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:48:00 PM
Thanks a lot, Joseph.
Date: 3/5/2021 8:45:00 AM
Jenna, congratulations on receiving POEM OF THE DAY with this skillfully penned poem _Constance
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:48:00 PM
Thank you, Constance.
Date: 3/5/2021 8:44:00 AM
Masterful poem Jenna! :) Congratulations! Linda
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:47:00 PM
Thanks, Linda.
Date: 3/5/2021 8:26:00 AM
now is we can just get all the snakes to take a bipartisan stance that does not require changing skins.....Some very thought provoking metaphor in this one, will have to read and ponder again...
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:47:00 PM
Thanks for the read John.
Date: 3/5/2021 8:19:00 AM
Congratulations Jenna on your well deserved POTD. I especially liked the snake/skin reference. Take care. John
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:46:00 PM
I appreciate your thoughts, John.
Date: 3/5/2021 7:28:00 AM
So well done! Excellent piece Jenna! Congratulations on POTD honours, xomo
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:45:00 PM
Thanks, all!
Date: 3/5/2021 7:25:00 AM
Congratulations on poem of the day Jenna, well deserved, it’s an outstanding write... Belle
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 3:45:00 PM
Thanks a lot, Belle.
Date: 3/5/2021 6:34:00 AM
Hi Jenna, I'm just coming to say congratulations on getting the poem of the day. It was well deserved:-) Alexis
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 7:12:00 AM
Welcome back, sweet Alexa. Thank you.
Date: 3/5/2021 5:38:00 AM
Congratulations on POTD!! This is an honor bestowed upon you by your peers. I'm sorry your name was not on the anointed list of the high elite but I'm proud of you all the same. This is an amazing poem Jenna, great job!!!
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 11:37:00 PM
If you consider who those people are you’ll see that they have no integrity, but you do
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Mark Koplin
Date: 3/5/2021 9:28:00 AM
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think poetry has enough room for people who write from the heart. I’m shunned for speaking my mind while others are praised for speaking theirs.
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 6:55:00 AM
Thanks but don’t be sorry, Mark. Lists can be written by anyone, even by the hand of self-proclaimed poets. Some of those mentioned are good writers, but then we don’t all agree on what constitutes good poetry, or even what makes words a poem
Date: 3/5/2021 5:29:00 AM
Congrats on POTD Jenna! Advice we would all do well to follow
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 5:37:00 AM
Thanks, Tom.
Date: 3/5/2021 5:27:00 AM
Hi Jenna... back to congratulate you on POTD!!! yay. Love to you, Gina
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 5:30:00 AM
Thanks a lot, Gina, but I've conferred the choice to another.
Date: 3/5/2021 3:47:00 AM
Congratulations for POTD - a truly fine poem and a wonderful honor - enjoy the day. Hugs and blessings, Jennifer.
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Jenna Logan
Date: 3/5/2021 5:09:00 AM
Happy to see you, Jennifer and thanks so much, but alas, I've handed potd over to another. One who many find more worthy.
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