Weeds

Thank you so much for the comment Relic. I think that is a great interpretation and I definitely saw a lot of wisdom in your last post. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

'Plant flowers in open Hearts' - Like this ... Bless and love ... ..

Thank you so much for the comment FeN, I am really happy you liked this one. Keep planting those flowers! 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

We all try to remove the weeds in our lives and grow and nurture the flowers in our hearts.
But sometimes there are tears in our lives but every flower needs a little rain to grow.
Beautiful
Love and light
Ron xx

That is so true Ron. I really like your perspective and positivity regarding the tears. Could we truly appreciate the flowers and the garden without them... Probably not. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

NO RAIN NO FLOWERS its not my line my author friend penned it. Its beautiful
Love and light
Ron xx

We read this once without commenting because it had us thinking on a thing. There is a phrase about reaping what you sow. With the menage of events in our lives and the huge mixture of emotions that we endure everyday. Is it possible that our bag of seeds was a mixed bag and that we are responsible for the weeds just as the flowers. Could the weeds be ours to claim just as if they were our offsprings, a rose bush in full bloom is a beautiful thing. But we do expect to see the thorns in full display. all of that to say that we do tend to plant corruption in hallowed ground, especially with children

This is what I love so much about comments; hearing the unique and personal perspectives and thoughts. Even with such a short write you have provided such a detailed response and I appreciate that so much. Although the message is one regarding where we should place our love, attention, and efforts in order to grow; there is no doubt that we all plant our share of weeds. So we must constantly tend to our garden and flowers doing the best we can to grow in positive ways. Children are certainly a part of that garden for those who have them and they add an entirely new dimension to things; like we did for our parents gardens. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

The weeds do give good advice if you smoke them, LOL.   Keep on writing.

Cannot think of a better way of getting rid of the weed than smoking it, or making brownies. LOL 🌿😮‍💨🌿

very clever, lady

the thought is fluid like water, it'll take the shape of whatever head happens upon it.  I got the feeling there is also something very vunrable and generous hiding in plain view

good stuff

Certainly open to interpretation and I am so happy that you shared your thoughts. The garden and flowers are very vulnerable to weeds. They try very hard to invade, penetrate, and take away the beauty only for themselves, while strangling and suffocating. The garden when tended can provide all the sustenance you need along with the beauty and fragrance of the flower. Although there will always be some thorns... 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

Bravissima, Kristina❣❣ i ponder the fertility of a "proven soul." One, that being prepared so well, will surely yield delicious  fruits of joy. There is much wisdom in that passage as well as the next. You illustrate so well that true, long lasting love requires open hearts.❤🌹Beautiful work, BD🐻💋🐻💋🐻

Thanks GW, as always the romantic is showing through in your response. A properly tended garden will sure yield lots of fruit but also takes time and effort to prevent the weeds that invade over time. It takes work to keep the heart open and free of those weeds. Even the proven soul needs fresh fertilizer to maintain it's brilliance. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

So the rest remain barren?  A weed, like the dandelion, which has a flower and can be used to make tea and wine?

Just messing with you KX. Clever poem, open to many interoperations.

lol You are my dandelion, invading my comments, so I suppose I will just have to make some tea or wine out of  you. And I guess I will take the weeds over barren land. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

That's how I know you like me. ;) And open to many interpretations (and interoperations 🙃) , like me

I can't say what other people have already said, without sounding patronizing.

I appreciate the read Adagio, I am still interested in your thoughts if you want to share them.  👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

Powerful and intellectual  stuff Kristina. Little bit of wisdom and knowledge like daily bread.
Nice spill

I love a little daily bread spill every so often. :) Thank you so much for the comment Wally, I am really glad you could see wisdom and power in the message. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

Very nice poem.
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Thank you so much Marks, I am really happy to see you again and that you liked this one. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

You're welcome, KristinaX.
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I am always drawn in by intriguing thought provoking writes. You have certainly planted your seeds of metaphoric wisdom and sowed a harvest of incredible responses. And in the process you just happened to stumble across me, the ugly weed. A soul that has been left barren with fertile soil and who's heart's flowers wilted and perished in lost love. But I am a weed who can survive and flourish in the most challenging turmoils and environments. I am a survivor..... ''A Weed is But an Unloved Flower'', by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

''A Weed is But an Unloved Flower'', I love that; it is such a hopeful and beautiful way to look at things. As usual your comment is creative and meaningful, quite the wordsmith. Still you are no ugly weed, your heart shows through all the time with beautiful flowers in full bloom. 👩🏻‍🌾🌼🌺🌸🌻🌹

Dear K,

What a wonderful metaphor. I suppose as universal gardeners it’s important to constantly be weeding relationships that want to invade and put a toxic choke hold on our blooms. So sad, sometimes, no matter where we’d like to plant flowers in open hearts and gardens in proven souls we still need thorns to protect ourselves from pervading weeds in equal measure. What a built in funny system isn’t it. I really liked how your lovely poem made me think of its similarities between nature and human behavior. H🌷

Such an absolutely perfect comment, Honoria. I am definitely familiar with the toxic choke hold. And the defense mechanisms, those thorns we develop to protect ourselves. So much can be explained in nature. Your thoughts are always so meaningful and I always love hearing them. 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼🌺

A lot said with few words
Those are my favorites

Like

I am at your service, Poetspeak. I will be posting more short ones for you in the future. :) 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼🌺 (And a lot can be said with no words too but I am so happy you share yours with me)

Never thought about it like that, I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s so easy to to allow weeds to grow in your garden. Maybe I need to look at my garden...

I have to do a short write that makes you think every now and again. :) It is a constant struggle to keep the weeds out. I think we all have to look our gardens frequently or else surely something bad will grow there or everything will die. lol Thank you so much for the comment Buddydog, I always love hearing from you and I hope you are having a good new year... 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼🌺

Nicely put.

Thank you so much for the comment Viking, I am really happy you liked this one. Keep planting flowers. :) 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

enlightening
powerful in thought.
thank you for sharing

Thank you so much for the comment Mystic, I am really happy you liked this one. I love that you chose to plant a flower in my comments. :) 👩🏻‍🌾🥀🌼

couldn't help but ...i am a landscaper.

So if I get any weeds in my comments I know who to call. 🌺🌸🌹😘

I've been reading back through your catalogue today when I got home and amidst other things like browsing amazon for a bluetooth sleep headband and chatting with friends on social media. I connect best with the most personal writing, the honest vulnerability of it, like when you wrote about your family. Your comfort with the erotic genre is noteworthy and admirable, the bdsm aspects are intriguingly rendered, stirring visuals, sensuality in the voice. In bdsm, there is the intimate exchange of surrender and trust, control and care, which I feel like you express with subtle awareness. I hope to learn more about you on a personal level when I click into your posts, what you hope for, regret, dream about, your experiences of joy and loss and memories, etc, what those shadows will resonate with on the level of our mutual humanity. Of course I appreciate your presence on the site in whatever you're doing, I'm always happy to connect with you.🌹 💖🙏

I was truly surprised to see this one pop up on my updates... It's very interesting to go back on things that were written a while ago. A lot of my writing is very personal to me, but what can be very clear to me might actually be very obscure in many ways to others. I often incorporate a number of meanings, and at times some of them can even be opposing. One negative and one positive. My history with BDSM for example is rooted in a complicated and difficult past. Willing surrender and trust as opposed to the exact opposite. But so often our past transforms us and traumatic things can drive our needs in some ways. The mind is so complicated. Over time I have opened up more about certain things and I have to admit that really challenged me. Because I often do what I call spinning out in comments when I get to close to certain things. I try to avoid speaking about something while speaking about it. I suppose I still have a ways to go to be able to truly share some things in a more direct manner. I love to connect with you as well, and others, and it has helped me open up some more. But you know sharing some things can really cause a lot of anxiety. I am very passionate and can be very bold but I also am very sensitive as well so it makes for a complicated combination that's for sure. Anyway, I had actually just read your latest and really connected with it in a personal way. I will try to express more on that for you soon. The complexity of trying to respond is a compliment. Anyway, I am really happy to connect with you as well and I love your opinion and encouragement. You challenged me early on and that made a difference in my opening up more. Okay, I don't want to ramble. :) Perhaps I will send you a suggestion or two if you want that are very personal.

Kristina I want to honestly thank you so much for giving me so much better understanding of your process, I feel like I am going to be reading you with new eyes. I see the comments like my friend Rob leaves and I feel like he had a better understanding, but that is no surprise, as Rob is a much more worldly man than myself. I mostly keep to myself since my best friend died 5 years ago, when he was alive, it was mostly me and him and the people we saw at the local bars or getting together to bbq or play Smash Bros or something, I didn't know those people outside of those activities, now that he's gone, I only see a friend for a lunch date here and there. So I lead a pretty isolated life as a Home Health Caregiver for my disabled mother.

I would definitely accept any guidance you feel like giving me in your writing or any particular pieces you feel I should take a look at.

My most recent piece, The Chariot, I was talking to Rob, Rian and my friend Rina about working on poems about honesty. Initially we were going to do a collaboration, but I wrote 3 pages worth on the subject, so we posted separately. I started out thinking, "stanza" is the italian word for room, a room has 6 dimensions, so I wrote 6 stanzas or "lines" for the poem. I decided to explore the Freudian id, desire, loss, regret, memories, fear of death, etc. And elenctic method is also called Socratic method, it is the concept of discovering understanding by asking questions. That is the methodology and intention of my most recent, but the important thing to understand, I've found, is when we publish anything, it becomes to the person who reads it, whatever they experience from their unique perspective, so no interpretation is ever wrong, it is a gift, because it grants perspective.

My heart goes out to you. I know the trials, challenges, and emotional impact of being a caregiver. As things get worse with my Mom, it becomes more and more difficult to handle and to watch. Other things in my life are also very demanding
and I think that's the main thing that holds me together. So I can imagine the toll that the isolation of being there full time takes on you. And I am so sorry to hear about your friend. I wish that things were better for you and I hope 2023 is the best year it can be for you. <3

Okay, I will send you a few things I think you may find interesting.

That's very interesting. I did see a lot of that as I read especially the Freudian aspects. Thank you for the clarification on your inspiration, process, and thinking regarding writing that piece. I really like the methodology and intent behind it.

People have to experience it like we do to know what it's like to become the parent of your own parent, in a way. They're in pain, losing mobility and independence, they're afraid and that makes them irritable and angry and they need so much supervision. Anyhow *hugs* my friend David died of alcoholism at 37 years old, liver cirrhosis. I'm told he yelled for me when he came out of his coma and was taken to hospice to die, but I only got to say goodbye while he was still in the coma. His spirit came to me after he passed, though I wouldn't be told for a week or so, I felt him in the room one morning, clear as seeing or feeling anything.

I know it's hard but I'm glad you are there for your parent like I am here for mine.

It's already turning into a better year, I feel really good talking to you. 💖🙏🏻