Listen to dark winds caress
the leafless tree that stands
in moonlight glowing,
capturing words of wisdom
on cold gnarled branches
a thousand dreams old.
Open wide your dreaming eyes
as thought creates itself
here, there, and everywhere
wandering without boundaries
in the company of
its own unmoving presence. ~ ms
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Before I Forget 
excellent Mary
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Knowing you would know the thoughts 😉
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Wow. I wrote a poem many years ago with the same feelings behind it. But it was nothing, nothing close to the gift of words you have put on the page.
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I just read your post “The Reflective Mirror.”
The same thought appears in different ways and words.
Beautiful.
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That just shows how connected we all are. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve just finished writing a post and then read another with a very similar topic and message. I truly believe these messages need to get out and so, many of us are receiving them to deliver. The same message delivered just a little differently so that everyone in their own way can hear them. Thank you for what you do.
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Nicely written
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Thank you!
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Beautiful…….form and the formless…….words arising making concepts to disappear in its own unmoving presence as you so well said…..thanks!! in peace…..
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Like a wave rising up from the ocean and then returning again
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Such an atmospheric tree and poem!
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Thanks Jas!
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Wonderful poem….love the tree ….
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Thank you….love your tree designs!
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Beautiful words
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Thank you Missy!
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That tree is almost identical to ones on the Fairlane Manor grounds.
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It’s some kind of willow?
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Amazing Pic and poetry… Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Your welcome!
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Fantastic work!
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Thank You, Kaushani!
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Great work, Mary…
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Thanks so much, Artsy!
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Beautifully expressed, juxtaposing thought-full dreaming eyes with the cold harsh winter of our discontent. Love it! ♥
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Thank you.
It’s all united…as your name implies!
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Really mesmerizing lines.
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Thank you!
I just saw your comment….Time eluded me once again!
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Thanks. Time always plays truants.
Regards
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Good shit, that! 😳
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I will have to ask the universe if it sees and understands the good in shit.
Undoubtedly it does.
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