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If you stitch 1000 paper cuts The loss of life is in the unpicking

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Ink Empress

Date: 3/26/2025 4:43:00 AM

Well , talk about originality and the opposite or antonyms for cliche, you will find it in your poetry! Inventive and well articulated words! Love it! The depth of this is moving! Best wishes for the contest

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/26/2025 5:16:00 AM

The words all poets love to hear! Thank you Ink, your words are a joy to receive :)

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 3/25/2025 2:29:00 AM

- A profound quote, D.D. ... best wishes in the contest :) - hugs

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/25/2025 3:37:00 AM

Thank you Anne-Lise - I found this prompt really fun once I got into it. It's mid morning now though and my brain is too busy to come up with anything. Clearly just on waking is a magical time :) Thanks for stopping by. I'll check out yours x

David Kavanagh

Date: 3/25/2025 2:15:00 AM

A painfully brilliant quote Dilly, I can clearly see the unraveling or (loss of life) in the unpicking, think I’d take my chances, and let them heal naturally, I know the Chinese used ‘Lingchi’ (Death by a thousand cuts) but that’s an altogether different beast, great one for contest cheers David

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/25/2025 2:27:00 AM

Thanks David, I borrowed slightly from the original (along with "you can't die from a paper cut" which I'm sure I've heard somewhere) and mingled the two. But indeed this is more about rumination than physical injury. Thanks for stopping by :)