Aham, thank you so much for sitting with me in the garden! When calm and not pressured, love is an easy act, hence my design for this poem. You want to stay where nothing pushes and prods you, and you’re welcome as you are.
Thank you, Dorie! Never liked the taste of effervescent love, it's so destabilizing, and I don't think you can grow in that space. It's how I know that version is wrong. 🤗
I love all the imagery in this like the snowflakes piling up until you have to shovel through them 🖤✨ but this? "pretends I’m not a fucking mess when the penguin’s egg die." how could anyone not sob for the penguin is beyond me 😭😭😭
Exquisite.
Fatima, thank youuuu! 🫂
I love the comparison to cage and garden as if offering the continuation of growth, giving those we love room to breath instead of smothering them
The poem comes across genuinely and this line especially stuck out:
“I cannot live without you is terror dressed as devotion”
Thank you, Gub, for always reading my work so carefully, it gives me so much joy. Happy to have brought some food for thought to you! 🫂
Nicole, the way you write of love is cautious … and by that i mean, someone who has learned to be careful with it.. both for theirs sake and her own.
I also like how you don’t smoothen the rough edges.. you un-layer instead to reveal the real..
Thank you, Meera! 🤗❤️
Thx for sharing beautiful
Let me in let me in let me in but…
I’m getting Rumi in the quiet wisdom. Keep watering the garden.
Thank you, Maria!
This is my favorite poem of yours
Gorgeous
Only you can write like this
This is beautiful Nicole
Thank you, Leo! Come sit in the garden!
I don’t play in other peoples gardens. 😳
It’s just a place to meditate. Has pines!
Wait you never mentioned pines. I do like meditating.
See? But get a pillow for your ass, the rocks are cold.
I think rocks are misunderstood. Sure they can be cold at first but once you get to know them they warm up to you.
It's a pleasure being weird ... keeps me separate from the crazy ones who refer themselves as normal ... if that is ever true ...
Thanks for your poem, lovely stated.
Thank you, Kaye! So glad this made sense to you! 🤗
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The way you speak of staying, not as fear or duty but as a gentle choice, really stayed with me. It reads like love that knows how to breathe.
Aham, thank you so much for sitting with me in the garden! When calm and not pressured, love is an easy act, hence my design for this poem. You want to stay where nothing pushes and prods you, and you’re welcome as you are.
I especially like the final two lines.
Thank you, Michael! Glad you stopped at the philosophy.
“I shall not make a cage of
what was meant to be a garden… “the last two lines.. just blew me away.
Beautiful writing Nicole.
Thank you so much, Regolith! Takes a lifetime to appreciate a cageless garden. Sending hugs! 🫂
Honestly you are such a talent Nicole. Every word resonates in some way. 🫂
Your poetry hurts
Only in the right place, I hope, Sierra! :) Thank you for reading!
Always
You hit it right on the head! Well done. Love that burns putters out. Love that stays is patient and weathers every storm.
Thank you, Dorie! Never liked the taste of effervescent love, it's so destabilizing, and I don't think you can grow in that space. It's how I know that version is wrong. 🤗
Nicole, your universe is magical!! Thank you for welcoming me into it too
Phoeby, you are always, always welcomed in my world. If you ever want to visit RL too, give me a sign. 🤗
That’s a great idea
Such a powerful poem. Phenomenal!
Luna, so nice to meet you, thank you so much for calmly sitting with this poem in our garden! 🫂
I love all the imagery in this like the snowflakes piling up until you have to shovel through them 🖤✨ but this? "pretends I’m not a fucking mess when the penguin’s egg die." how could anyone not sob for the penguin is beyond me 😭😭😭
Laura, thank youuuuu, I thought I must be so weird for not being able to watch a documentary like normal people ahahah! Love you, thank you! 🫂
Girl, when I tell you I literally have to close my eyes and ask my husband to let me know when certain parts are done because I just can't 😂😭