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Touch Therapy - 2

Was Love wrong about you when you laid your heart down upon the steaming ice of shocked innocence, soaking the violet chakra of your inner child's consciousness in the freezing puddles of premature pain wishing there were a wild way to punish God for the disgrace of ignorance that hope and heartache hurry you into, were the Angels wrong about the alms of your amazing eyes, are the roses of youth wrong about the velvet of your plush pulses, were teachers wrong about the arithmatic of your inspired intellect blooming slow amid the din of devilish danger, is your favorite song a beautiful sabotage of suffering, wrong about the joy that your prodigous confidence promised, maybe you were wrong about being wrong... J.A.B. 2023

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Alesia Leach

Date: 4/13/2025 12:54:00 PM

You write like someone holding lightning with both hands. This reads like a soul unraveling and rewinding at the same time--beautiful in its ache, its questions, its brave searching. There’s something deeply human in asking if the angels were wrong about us… and quietly hoping the answer is still no. Thank you for writing with such ferocity and grace. You make pain into poetry.

Justin Bordner
Date: 4/13/2025 4:32:00 PM

What you've said here is one of the most beautiful things anyone has ever told me Alesia...Justin

Ink Empress

Date: 2/25/2025 2:31:00 AM

I absolutely love that last line, and also the alliterations throughout as well as the word pairings and how youv written a very spiritual and deeply meaningful poem in such a seamless manner! The opening lines truly drew me in and how you’ve written so many lines in this is truly impressive such as “ were teachers wrong about the arithmatic of your inspired intellect blooming slow amid the din of devilish danger,” i wonder how accurate were teachers, and what they taught amidst the din of danger! You have a. Very metaphorical way of expressing! Pleasure reading your poem today! Sending you light always

Justin Bordner
Date: 2/25/2025 7:01:00 PM

Your Light is warm Poetess, your texture true. Your mind is very meticulous, very spirited, I like it much...J.A.B.

Laura Breidenthal

Date: 2/13/2025 1:34:00 AM

Loving this, Justin. There’s peace to be found in the acceptance of complexity and contradiction within. Always, Laura

Justin Bordner
Date: 2/15/2025 5:46:00 PM

We very rarely learn anything of significance by being right Poetess...J.A.B.