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Cynthia's avatar

Me too. Me too. Love the song choice. Love the way you put this all together.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Thank you, Cynthia!!! 🖤

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Cynthia's avatar

Sure thing! Thank you for sharing yourself with us.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

🙏

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Dick Whyte's avatar

This one resonates with me a whole lot. 💜 Determined to figure out how. At least I now believe it might one day be possible - that is some kind of progress. And the Stone Roses song perfectly caps it off - such a banger, and so emotionally spot-on. Lots of feels here. Sending good thoughts my friend (for this and the last one).

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Welcoming them all (the good thoughts, I mean) with gratitude :) Thank you, Dick!!!

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Dick Whyte's avatar

You're so welcome - thanks for articulating these feelings in poetry. A problem shared, and all that. Here's to the future possibility of self-love! 💛

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Here's to the future possibility of self-love and to the distant friends who can sense the undercurrent turmoils 💛

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Dick Whyte's avatar

big yes to that - sending warmth 💛💛💛

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Richbee's avatar

Meteor, shooting star appears in night sky too bright for daydreams.

The image disappears after brief exposure to light as a mirror reflection …a signal sign.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

It took me years to decipher the signal... Thank you, Richard!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

beautiful, with sharp edges

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Fotini Masika's avatar

It nearly missed the bone, Jonathan. Thank you for reading and restacking 🙏

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Jonathan Foster's avatar

I feel like I’ve eavesdropped a private conversation, then the speaker catches my eye and I look away, caught.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

The speaker is so caught up in the music that can't see you, Jonathan, no worries :)

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Jonathan Foster's avatar

Now I’ve listened to the SR! Man that took me back :) Thanks

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

..parallel

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

..it's physically hard to move on,

even,

to turn the page

and-how I'm now,

to show mine?

now it all pales

leaves are about to fall

I guess

about to fall

and I'll be

one of them,

at least,

dancing in the air,

briefly,

before hitting the ground,

I am a leaf,

to your Fall,

I am a leaf

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Fotini Masika's avatar

"And I'm falling under your spell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiEgqm7CZ3k

🖤

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

....

🤍

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The Sea in Me    (Síodhna)'s avatar

'Dreams come with songs on their tails,

comets whose trails fade in the night'

Unfurling, reflective September... as a he.

Lovely layered fresh writing, Fotini. In what seems like a rotating , mirrored subject.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Thank you so much, Síodhna 🙏

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Beautiful. I feel like I need to carry this one with me for a while.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Take it by the hand gently, don't let it drag you...

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Susie Mawhinney's avatar

Caught in the nostalgia of your words and the song… some place I left in a trail behind me 💛

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Oh, these old trails...

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Edgar Ballantyne's avatar

This is marvellously done - the conceptual echo between darkness, comets, tails, and dream as events trailing through from the past is superb. I can see how much it stays with you in the weight of these figures.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Thank you so much, Edgar 🙏 I mean it with all my heart :)

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Edgar Ballantyne's avatar

You’re entirely welcome

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Treasa's avatar

Seeing as Nick Cave and I have both agreed you can share our birthday celebration this year (due to your ill timed illness), I feel it's apt to share a card that arrived in the post today. 50's screen siren pic with caption 'It must be so exhausting...being so fabulous.' Have a fabulous day Fotini.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

The most fabulous card I have ever gotten, Treasa :) Thank you very much 🖤

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Elizabeth Grace Martinez's avatar

This speaks to my soul words I can’t say out loud

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Shhh!

🙏

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

This seems so quiet and innocent yet it screams of a pain. So well written, humble yet powerful. I read this as a relationship that's changed and how one party is pulling the strings and running the show to their own detriment. Wonderful piece!

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Thank you so much, Pilgrim 🙏

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Michael Edward's avatar

I really like the feeling this poem aroused in me. And I also feel like there is more to it that I’m yet to grasp. A deep one Fotini. :)

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Thank you so much, Michael! 🖤

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Darienne's avatar

This one burns and bruises beautifully Fotini it’s quite fabulous.

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Fotini Masika's avatar

Thank you so much, Darienne! 🙏

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