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A pure moment of beauty is a rare thing. I think a lot of us want to create and experience outrageous beauty as an act of defiance for the times we’re living in. People through the ages have always wanted to do this. It has a gyroscopic effect--a way to have beauty at the center, and all the ugliness spinning away. Far, far away . . . thank you, Brian!

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I love your phrase "gyroscopic effect"...there was a spinning element to this, going from memory to now to future with overlap from line to line.

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I couldn't agree more whole heartedly Ann, a simple, yet profoundly beautiful act can negate much that is ugly - give hope when we are feeling lost.

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Brian so many thanks for your lilting voice which gives this poem such depth. To say it is beautiful feels very inadequate, exquisite, divine, heavenly... ✨

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Thank you Susie. These words made my day!

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I love how memory weaves through hope here, how the past and present and future all intertwine.

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Thanks! I like it on the page and it baffles me in real life 🙂

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Our memories seem sometimes to be living breathings things. They are gifts to be mined and read through in our minds. Beautiful work Ann and Brian.

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Thanks Pamela, appreciate your thoughts. I think it’s that mining that brings memories into the present💫

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My pleasure Brian! It is the mining that brings the memories into the present. I am reminded now of a poem from a favorite poet that I should share.

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I would love to read that one, Pamela!

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I will work on it. I have to transcribe it from the book!

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Please do!

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Will get it together for a post!

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Stunning! I loved listening to the voice over. It definitely created a moment of peace for me while listening. Thank you!

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Makes me so happy when people listen! I love reading these pieces out loud!

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I relate to that. I have done it a few times myself and enjoy the process so much. Listening to someone’s voice is a completely different experience. I love it! I think you have a really great voice for reading out loud, by the way.

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Thanks 😊

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A beautiful collision of form and thought in this new series from Brian and Ann.

https://youtu.be/F4Y7Q0tP3kI?si=luS-JmWNTEbn4UQf

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Síodhna--my favorite DJ! We have a lot of the same taste in music!

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That's lovely to hear Ann! Really lovely. Music has so much in common with the rhythm and melody in words, don't you think? I think I tried to grasp a sense of that here, maybe.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theseainme/p/orpheus?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46rss

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Gorgeous work. Fascinating!

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Lovely little song ❤️

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I like these lines in particular, Brian:

"for you know a prologue

cannot be written before

the finale,

and while you desire

a particular end

chapter two will be

penned tomorrow,"

I like how the perception of time is not linear as in life like Ann had mentioned above before the poem. Interesting and I appreciate the fluidity of time as the mind desires making sense and trying to put things into a linear order. Thank you for sharing.

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Thanks Neil! Time is a funny thing, especially when one is driven by preoccupation with another!

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Really enjoyed the spiral quality of memory here. I think it’s difficult to capture nonlinear memory/thinking, which is more often the way memory and thought occur!

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I agree, was not easy, but something about the book analogy made it doable for this case. I’m glad you enjoyed!

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What a dream-like flow.

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Thanks for reading!

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