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Spectacular photo! Wowzers!

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Agreed. 👌

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Thanks 🙏

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Thanks, Mary

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There’s a time for dreams and a time for reality.

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That’s right — thanks, Stan

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Ripples on water reflection. Moon mist beams become coffee cream. Color of clouds change more quickly than thoughts. One more sip should bring me to see the bright light of the day for finding answers in a universal interview.

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Aug 5Liked by Jonathan Potter

Beautiful last stanza. Really liked this one! I also like how you record these while out and about…

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Thanks, Brian

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Aug 6Liked by Jonathan Potter

If more of humanity, particular that part of it with power and influence, saw as do you, the world would be a better place for all species, the environment, life itself. Thank you,.

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Thanks, Roger

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Aug 6Liked by Jonathan Potter

Some good use of active figurative language here. This is a strength. Develop it!

This is something Derek Walcott is particularly good at as well.

Are you aware of his work? He's yet another aquarian poet, to set beside Marlowe, Donne and Auden.

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Thanks, John. Walcott’s poem “Love After Love” came up not long ago and I was meaning to delve further but haven’t yet. This gives me another nudge to do so.

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Aug 8Liked by Jonathan Potter

You really should. He's a very great poet. Though not without faults. But at least he's aware of his own faults. He's not as perfect as Larkin, but he's more inspiring. The trouble is that Larkin sold out to Humanism Atheism Rationalism Materialism Secularism (HARMS) and forgot the importance of Keats's 'negative capability'. Which I call creative ambivalence. (I suppose you could also call it imaginative identification with everything.)

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Aug 8·edited Aug 8Author

I'm with you a hundred percent. I love Larkin but I've always been bothered by exactly what you put your finger on here. "Creative ambivalence" is a great spin on Keats, too. I think it's also really the only way to live fully as a human. Marlowe, Donne, and Auden are bright stars for me, too, without a doubt, although it's been many years since I've looked at Marlowe -- and now I'm itching to do so as well.

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Those ending lines! 💛

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Thanks, Margaret Ann

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Aug 13Liked by Jonathan Potter

"I wake to pull myself up

by the dangling chains of the moon

slipped free of night’s gravity"

Love this image.

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