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Stanley Wotring's avatar

To feel is to live.

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Patris's avatar

What a beauty, Jonathan. And a feeling.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thanks so much, Patris — yes, the feeling is what it’s all about.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Triple scoop frosty freeze but dressed warm to bare the clouds collected thoughts with thrill of solitude to take a big bite out of the day. . Fills me with vanilla lemon bisque. I accept the toss of a pebble into the River of life in your triptych poem that draws my attention to time to live and cold hand oof a friend missed who waits at home with hot drink when I return.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Richard. I wonder if any ice cream parlor has thought to name their triple-scoop option The Triptych

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Patten the name and sell the big scoop to a parlor near you.

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Karen E Sandberg's avatar

Love the repetition of lines, the rythmn, the images.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Karen

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Ann Collins's avatar

Just so beautiful.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Ann

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Mark Rico's avatar

Worth reading, rereading, reading again.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Mark

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ville Iso ahola's avatar

👍

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

thank you

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Lovely. My favorite lines:

“The morning light, the taste of tears,

The sounds of things that no one hears

Like ships out on the ocean tossed”

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Margaret Ann

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