Insignificance
I many times feel this way from the amazing writers I read here on redbubble…
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Complex Simplicity of Art, ! Creative Writing & Poetry !, "Poetry and Beautiful Women" , All Out Emotion, Art Inspired by Dreams, Core [C.O.R.E], Creative Poetry Challenges, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), Freedom In Words & Art, Freedom to Shine, Friends of RedBubble, Graphic Scratch, Lifeline, Live, Love, Dream: , Masterpieces: Literary Workshop, Midnight Ramblers, Moms 4 Art, Shameless Self-Promotion, The beauty of poetry, The Red Writing Room, The Sensual Word, THE SISTERHOOD, The Word Tree, Two Beings Group, Up & Coming Writers, Vibration in Art and Verse - VAVoom!, WMG and Writing: Persuing HappinessI was thinking about
your description of his hands,
perfect yet flawed,
and how, in moving,
they recall a sense of
a flock of birds,
startled.
As I read your words
I envision his hands;
they fly in patterns
seemingly of one mind,
like action at a distance,
but at each turn
of a wrist or a finger,
they always leave one
caught off guard,
but catches up soon enough.
Each accepted back into the fold,
and again part of one mind.
i was thinking
of your description
and how your
writing makes me feel marginal.
linaji
well…..after reading this piece , I feel like the last line… Really exceptional work. Xoxox
ShadowDancer replied
oh lina, you’re so fabulous… Hugs!
Sally Omar
Oh, my dear, you are so awesome…you are certainly not marginal!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxxoxo
ShadowDancer replied
Sally… thank you so much!
Lisa Jewell
Wow,
Firstly, I’m so partial to hands…wrists in particular…
You’ve inspired me…such is the lovely circle of writers.
Stunning work. xxx
ShadowDancer replied
Lisa, I also have a fascination with hands.. they are so magical and capable of not just doing, but showing emotions.. I get so caught up in the words splayed across the vast pages of RB, so emotionally stirred up.. you are one of those that really get to me with your writing. Keep it going, it keeps me going. XX
Druidstorm
The flight of the hand is but the echo of thought
The blackened ink a dancer upon the white sheets of ice
The memory of speach immortalize by the passion of word!
You words bring forth beauty! Thank you for the share friend!!!...)o(
ShadowDancer replied
Wow Druid.. I love when peoples comments are poems in themselves… so beautiful your own words.. thank YOU!
BiographyofRed8
i wonder at the last part.. why would you say this, seeing I look up to you as a writer, especially the description of the hands becoming as startled birds.. brilliant image in my mind
ShadowDancer replied
Red, you too are one that I admire and really knocks me off my feet.. you have an amazing gift with that pen of yours. I suppose we are all our own worst critics, though… putting our words here for others to see is much like slitting our wrists and letting our soul seep out onto the pages.. it gives us such a vulnerability. Thank you for helping ease my own feelings of mediocracy, it means more than you’d imagine.
ArcadiaTempest
OHhh this ode to writers is MWah! It so captures the spirit of how writing can be and writing as an observer of this you reminded us of another purpose of writing…..the other partner- the reader, lovely write! XXX
ShadowDancer replied
Arcadia,I love that it gave you that reminder.. it’s so fanciful as a writer to think about how you may affect someone else with your own words. As a reader of others poetry, I am reminded of that by the deep pull on my soul that I feel when I read them.
Cassey
Patty Jo, there is nothing marginal about you. This piece is beautiful, well written and you are one of my favorite writers (and quickly becoming one of my favorite people too.)
ShadowDancer replied
Ahhh, you’re always so charming Cass. Thank you so much for your praise (on both writing and personal), it puts the juice back in my batteries!
burntblue
mmmmm this really made me thoughtful. This piece has a lovely hook – lovely!
ShadowDancer replied
Well THANK you, i’m so glad you got hooked!
msdebbie 26 days ago
Not that I have any tolerance for objectification which society does so well nowadays, but it is interesting to me the parts o the body that most easily trigger our imagination. While it is not usually hands I am drawn to, this poem is very interesting and makes me wonder Hmmmm have I been missing out? More readily noticing the curve of a shoulder, or the clavicle… Anyways, such a lovely poem – brilliant xoxo
ShadowDancer replied 19 days ago
debbie, that is what i love so much about writing and poetry, it allows us to see the world in completely different and paralell ways, sometimes just one sentence or a string of words and ‘bam’ we’re slammed with a new way of seeing. this was written after reading a poem from a friend of mine that focused on the hands of her lover. i, too, was stricken at the thought and caused me to write this in tribute. thank you!
Cheryl Fugate 23 days ago
I think you are very talented … Love this one! GREAT WORK!! :)
ShadowDancer replied 19 days ago
Cheryl, that is a supremely sweet thing of you to say – thank you so much!
blueeyesbec 3 days ago
Gorgeous i feel like this to when i read others beautiful work i am surprised you feel this when your writing is so transcendent