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Category: Poetry
Poetry
from Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus
Love creates small medallions of universality. Signe Gjessing What are medallions of universality? Are they artifacts of acts of love that connect? Are they details of acts of love that we, each one of us, deeply understand? Are they stories that ...
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Poetry
from Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus
The world believes its possibility deserves to be seen Signe Gjessing What if the possibility of the world was conspiring to be seen? That would mean we must pay attention to the world and really see it. That would mean possibility is powerful, an...
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Poetry
I reckon – when I Count at all
I reckon - when I count at all -/ First - Poets - Then the Sun -/ Then Summer - Then the Heaven of God - And then - the List is done -// But, looking back - the First so seems/ To Comprehend the Whole -/ The Others look a needless Show -/ So I write ...
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Poetry
from “Epistle to the Efficience”
An experiment in stillness isn't death, its/ an attempt toward season. Aditi Machado Life is an experiment in stillness — moving between falling apart and back together. Between falling, seasons happen. Life happens. Efficience happens. Stillnes...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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