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Craig Slater's avatar

Love this! You have captured much here, including the fact that poems (like all creative writing) are incomplete and are just words on a page until someone reads them. Reading is indeed a creative process. Thanks for sharing this with us.

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

I agree, Craig. Thank you so much for reading and for your kind words.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

I've already seen this bit restacked twice, but it's so dang good:

"Feel free to rest anywhere.

Wipe your tired feet

on a fluffy fricative.

Rest your head

on a sonorant vowel

set like a throw pillow

on an errant syllable."

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you, Margaret! I hope you enjoyed your stay in the poem.

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Patris's avatar

Every morning should have a poem like this.

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you, Patris! 🤍

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

True!

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Kert Lenseigne 🌱's avatar

I hearted, as usual. If for no other reason than I now know what “fricative” is. Had to look it up 😬

Now, to use it in a sentence myself….

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Sometimes I'm tempted to write a poem that is jam packed with linguistics terminology rather than just including a smattering...tempted. :) Thank you so much for all your attention and support, Kert!

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Kert Lenseigne 🌱's avatar

But that wouldn’t be your true fricative self—scribing the friction of life through the narrow opening of days and moments, illustrating the resulting flow of turbulent times, waning waves, and the hard sounds of consonant relationship.

There, did it.

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Ash Kilback's avatar

Gorgeous. That last stanza moved me - birth your terrifying dreams!

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you, Ash! Yes, do it!! I believe in you.

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Marjorie Pezzoli's avatar

Dive - Dance - Rest, that is what I shall do today. Fabulous reminder, loved your wrap up!

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you, Marjorie! Always a pleasure.

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Victory Palace's avatar

Oh man…Mike…this was so awesome 👏. Thank you for this experience. Can’t love this one enough!

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you, VP! You know, I told my IRL friend about this one yesterday and he said, "What are people connecting with in the poem?" And I said, "Well, you know, this one is pretty much about direct connection itself."

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Sea's avatar

Thank you, Mike. It’s like a personal email.

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thanks for reading, Sea!

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sonja ringo's avatar

This brought me so much peace 🌸 thank you

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank YOU for reading it, sonja. Peace can be hard to come by sometimes, and I hope you enjoyed your stay.

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The Sea in Me    (Síodhna)'s avatar

'This poem

was written

just for you'

Yes, you, you, you, you you!!!

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you for all your support, The Sea.

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Viola Weinhold's avatar

The experience

you’ve just chosen—

this strange churning

of words

that sound first

and mean later—

will never happen

again.

This is an amazing poem, and I love these lines. I know I’m living in such a special unique time, and the weight of it is terrifying to me. I want to be conscious and awake and clear, and I’m not at all.

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you so much for your kind words, Viola. I think the moment you realize you want to be more aware and present is already a moment of celebration. I hope you remember to be kind to yourself as you would be to a close friend.

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

Brilliant reading, Mike—just for me!

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thanks, Paul. Always a pleasure.

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Revathi Ganesh's avatar

Wonderful 🦋✨️

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thanks, Revathi!

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Richbee's avatar

Awake now with image of “Hey You “and fried egg flower Romneya choice. Poem delights the palate ; hungry , and crack an egg creating thoughts to sizzle in a pan. Encouraged with your sunny side up verbiage to start my day.

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thanks as always for your beautiful words, Richard!

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James Don BlueWolf's avatar

Very, very satisfying

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

I'm so glad, James! Thanks for reading.

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Michelle Watte's avatar

Another big wow Mike. Our place in the cosmos,this wondrous gift of how we relate to it, to ourselves and each other, interwoven with masterful linguistics analogies. All of which provoke powerful energies of feeling and beauty

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Thank you so much.

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