What Matters Most

What Matters Most

What matters most is obvious to me. It’s hearth and home, kin and family. Life is an hourglass and the sands of your time keep drifting down - drifting, drifting, drifting downward as you race to get in all the things you want to do! But take time to breathe in the things you love: fresh baked bread, roses, the petrichor of spring! Simple are life’s joys. Give all you love to all those you love, for that will be your legacy when your sands run out and the hourglass turns over. April 1, 2020 for Chantelle Anne Cooke's "What Matters the Most to You" Poetry contest

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Date: 4/29/2020 6:06:00 PM
Petrichor is quite an interesting word. Never had heard of it before until now.
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Date: 4/24/2020 12:00:00 PM
Does the glass turn over to a new life, like a rebirth? Is that your objective here?
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Date: 4/13/2020 7:19:00 AM
REvisiting this timeless masterpiece. Truly a treasure. Be safe and well dear poet Andrea.
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Date: 4/9/2020 9:45:00 PM
This is a masterpiece dear Andrea.Truly amazing imagination!
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Date: 4/8/2020 9:50:00 PM
A beautiful double etheree, well penned.
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Date: 4/7/2020 10:56:00 AM
A perfect expression of how love envelops all that is precious and worthwhile. Your final lines are as elegant as any expression I've ever heard or read of the transition impending for us all.
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Date: 4/5/2020 7:35:00 AM
This is brilliant, Andrea.
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Date: 4/4/2020 7:34:00 PM
Wow what a talent you are, lovely creation
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Date: 4/4/2020 2:03:00 PM
Excellent poetry Andrea, congrats. :)
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Date: 4/4/2020 8:31:00 AM
I REALLY like this, Andrea. Janice
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Date: 4/3/2020 9:39:00 AM
Andrea, Never enough sand to go 'round. Amazing double-Etheree you have created here. -Richard
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Date: 4/3/2020 12:50:00 AM
Both form and poem are awesom. Hope you place well. Thanks for the compliment on "Mr. Cave". I do not like those long lines and try to avoid them. My computer is old, or I do not know how to set the lines properly. ????????????????
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Date: 4/2/2020 10:38:00 PM
Love it all, my favorite part: fresh baked bread, roses, the petrichor of spring! Hope your doing well! Thank you for reading a couple of my poems. <3 Kim
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Date: 4/2/2020 9:02:00 PM
Family is everything to me Andrea, and so are friends. I agree with everything in your brilliantly written double etheree. xxoo
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Date: 4/2/2020 6:02:00 PM
Like I used to tell my kids, "take time to smell the petrichor of spring"! I LOVE this so much, on so many levels. The message, the shape, the vocab, the emphasis on the simple joys of life and the loved ones around us. Great write, a fave! Hugs ~ John
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John Watt
Date: 4/4/2020 7:10:00 PM
Congratulations for your #1 placement today!
Date: 4/2/2020 1:48:00 PM
An hour-glass figure always catches my eye, so thank you for that as well as the clever rhymes! Aloha! Rico
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Date: 4/2/2020 9:58:00 AM
WOW! This is simply awesome, Andrea. Enjoyed reading about the true feel of life. This has to win BIG.
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Date: 4/2/2020 9:42:00 AM
Wonderful creativity..that will be your legacy when your sands run out and the hourglass turns over.. beautiful lines..Good luck in the contest..
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Date: 4/2/2020 9:24:00 AM
A beautiful Concrete / double Ethree Andrea. The shape matches the subject well and the content is lovely.
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Date: 4/2/2020 8:22:00 AM
Andrea you are such an "Ethereel" poet. You make this form look so easy
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 4/2/2020 3:18:00 PM
oh I loved that word play you did. thanks!!
Date: 4/2/2020 2:35:00 AM
So very beautiful Andrea, so glad I stopped by to read this fabulous poem of yours. It's going into my favorite list.
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 4/2/2020 3:19:00 PM
wow, thanks, Theresa.
Date: 4/1/2020 11:13:00 PM
The hour glass of life, you surely do stipulate what is important ,,,Great poem..
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Date: 4/1/2020 7:56:00 PM
Ingenious way of presenting the fall and the rise, the contraction and expansion. May your hourglass runneth over, Andrea! Cheers and Good Cheer! :) Gershon
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Date: 4/1/2020 7:24:00 PM
Love it! Nicely said and great shape!
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Date: 4/1/2020 7:17:00 PM
Is this an andaree etheree, you made this challenging form look so easy and nailed the contest theme:-) hugs Jan xx
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