Garden of Thorns

Dear H,

Read this 3 times
Trying to come up with something witty
When I get like this, I watch porn and whack off ...
Advice !!!!

Dear PS,

I’ve thunk and thunk and thunk. You’ve stumped the chef on this one pal. My advice pockets came up completely empty. However, I’m very grateful you’ve given this three chances and I’m always glad to see you. Thank you. H🌷

This made me shiver.
Thorns as an alternative…
Very powerful. Enjoyed this.

Dear H,

Thank you very much for your read and wonderful comment. I’m very appreciative and honored by your thoughts. Thank you. H🌷

Ooohh.... ouch. Wow. How perfectly you've captured that sense of numb hopelessness.... I do hope she finds some flowers amongst the thorns, and comes back out into the light.
❤️k

Dear K,

Yes, while a thorny scene just now, I think our girl will find her roses again and be all the better. Numb hopelessness, so well coined. That is the exact emotion I tried to express. Those times that have been repeated with no change in the outcome until that drastic finale. Thank you so much for your sweet comment and support, I’m very grateful. X
H🌷

This is a powerful image, Honoria.
And you said just enough.
There is painful solace in our gardens of thorns.
Strong, thought provoking.
J.

Dear J,

Thank you very kindly for your thoughtful response. I totally dig the idea of a painful solace. You’ve put a great phrase to a heretofore
un-worded action. Thank you again for your constant support. H🌷

Dear S,

Puns are fun! Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment and generous RL add. I’m just fine, thanks (as I hope you are) and very grateful to you for your kindness.
H🌷

This is beautiful! Safe space for sure lol

Dear BA,

Right on for safe spaces. Some folks like a soft blanket some prefer sharp prickly things. 😊 Thank you for your read and kind comment. I’m very grateful. Thank you again. H🌷

I can't think of anything to add either, but this was raw and beautiful.  I hope that she has hope, or someone she can rely on until it reappears.

Dear E,

Eventually, I think, hope might try to establish itself again. I think even if it doesn’t she’s found a place to dwell where she knows what to expect. I’m touched by your sweet concern for the future of the heroine. Thank you so much for your kind comment.
H🌷

I'm wondering what thorns are good for ... somewhere there must be a positive context in which they (thorns) can make a constructive contribution to her life ...

Dear J,

Protective armor. The thorns protect from hurt and emotional pain. In that context there is a constructive contribution. Maybe not the healthiest option but it’s something. 😊
Thank you very much for this thoughtful comment. It made me think even further on the relationship of each thought to each other. H🌷

Hi H:)

For me it reads like a mini movie scene. The less is more aspect you applied to this
gives it such great power. It could read like a death scene or like closure - which in a way is both:)
Well said amiga!!

Dear A,

Thank you this is high praise indeed. A movie scene! As a death scene I can totally see that as it is a death of sorts. Maybe not physical but for sure emotional.  Most assuredly closure. I really enjoyed your take on this, thank you again for such a lovely comment. H🌷

Your singing my song, you and I are on the same wavelength dearest, it pains me to know exactly how you feel and what you need because as you know i too am at my limite. Change is coming ♥️😘
Loves you Honoria
Jackie xoxox

Dear J,

Change is coming and you know what? As scary as it can feel, it’s also been feeling great! I think we both needed to be at that limit so we’d actually take some action. Thank you so much for your constant support, RL list and being brave with me. Xo
H🌷

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I love that last line, also the title. It really evokes a powerful image.

Dear L,

Thank you. I’m so tickled you like the title and imagery of it. I’m very grateful for your RL add and constant thoughtfulness, thank you so much. H🌷

...as another thorn gets added.

And well, look who decided to honor us with her poetic presence!   You make them few and far between, waiting for our brains to growl, before you feed us your material.

I guess the sense I get from this write is one of resignation.  But of course with the emotional dilemma poking against your head, from the heart.  I wish I could say that I can't relate.  But I most definitely can.  After awhile, you don't bother to close the door, they ain't staying long...

Thank you for sharing with us. No, with me!  I'm keeping a damn count.  Feed us!

Dear S,

“After awhile, you don't bother to close the door, they ain't staying long... “   I totally dig this analogy! I am sorry you can relate though. That’s sad for me. It’s such a crappy head place to be in. Alas…

Now you’re keeping count?
I’m playing hard to get. Stop cribbing my shtick. Sheesh! 😉
Thank you for your constant nudging…I mean support…and generous RL list. Means tons. H🌷

Dear H,
There is so much expressed and beautifully so, in this gem of yours. It's plain for anyone to see how it got so many reading list entries. I love how powerful your words come across and, of course, I am so able to relate to. It reminds me in a way of what another poet (whose name I wish I could honestly remember, wrote: Don't fall in love with a poet. Evidentially, we're only in it for the heartache. This may not be their exact words but I'm sure you will get it. I actually wrote a similar poem just this morning before I had the benefit of reading your wonderful gem posted here. I love you our poem!!! You always have a way of saying just what I am thinking and I thank you for it.
Faith

Dear F,

I’m having a giggle you can’t remember the poets name who’s leant the life advice. I do that all the time. But I get the message and it’s very true.
I confess I’m completely overwhelmed by your stunningly lovely comment. I really don’t deserve such high praise, truly. I’m always a bit sad when someone can relate to my scribbles because then they know sadness too. I’m also very selfish because there’s an uncomfortable comfort in feeling not so alone. The conundrum of it all. Thank you so very much for the RL add, your sweet comment and kind thoughts. Xx
H🌷

Dear H,  
 
Please let me say you deserve all of the praise you have received regarding your poem and then some! It's a great poem.  
Have I known sadness in my lifetime? I have known sadness almost to the point Of no return. That is where my poetry comes in. It's like a salve. It nourishes me when I wrote something I am proud to share on here. For better or worse, my writing is the reason I am still on this earth. Without it, I would have had nothing to cling to during  my troubled life and most certainly given up on life. I love how relatable your poem is.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I can only say thank heaven for poetry. It would be a terrible world without you in it! Xx

Dear H,
You are so sweet! What a wonderful thing to say to someone. Thank you!

Wow, you captured this feeling so incredibly like you always do with your writing. I could really feel all those moments I had that feeling, remember them clearly.  That is what awesome writing does. How often telling someone you care about to leave actually hurts you more. How often you live in a garden of thorns trying to make things different only to retreat to another. For me, jealousy, manipulation, and control are some of the thorns that cut me deep and seem to just grow cutting you more as time as goes on. I will definitely be coming back to this one again. I really felt it.

Dear K,

It really does cut to the quick reaching the point of having to let go of someone you care for so deeply. Surreal almost.
I honestly don’t think the simplicity of a thank you will cover my debt for this lovely and sweet comment. I’m so touched and as I’ve mentioned in responses above, a bit sad, you too, can relate. I know the relating part is meant to feel less lonely but I think I’d rather have this feel foreign so others wouldn’t know the emotional pain.
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Nope, I’ve just spent almost three minutes trying to think of something other than thank you. No luck. But I am very thankful for your generous RL list, your wonderful insight and sweet kindness toward my writing. I’m completely unworthy but very grateful. Xo
H🌷

Having spent some much needed time away from DU, focused on dealing with life pressures, elder care and what my own ongoing health issues task me with; I view this with a bit of hindsight which makes this piece so fantastically relatable. I deeply identify with the creatively astute way your writing captures such quiet painful resignation; leaving your heroine feeling like she's trapped by secrets /lies, while clinging to the last vestiges of her honor and pride. I know that there's such a hurtful ache that a faux ceremony of manipulation can produce and how it's meant to wreak utter havoc and devastation upon one's one goodness and light; possibly leaving them feeling like throwing in the towel, figuring that retreating into the safety of that 'known' comforting armor is an easier and a far more protective option, even if it isn't the healthiest. I have experienced a very similar emotional space myself....
   
This piece is immediate, intuitive and pure in it's potency, dear Honoria.      
     
Your talent, in saying so very much in such a fantastic feat of minimalism, is a testament to your incredible poetic prowess. (yes, you're chock full!!)  
     
I'm glad to know that there are other like minds out there that can imagine /empathize with these emotions and situations, dear lady. It's comforting to me, to say the very least.      
     
I too, hope the best for your heroine going forward; it's already more than difficult navigating one's path within this life, much less with any added unjust strife.    
     
Thank you for being you and sharing the parts of yourself that you do. It means a lot and makes for some truly wonderful work-💙  
🌹B

Dear BV,

You’ve delved into this with a depth that envelopes every level of emotional upset with laser precision. Uncanny. How did you get in my head? That’s a dumb question. It’s easy to get in there. I have so many holes in it. 🙄

“leaving your heroine feeling like she's trapped by secrets /lies, while clinging to the last vestiges of her honor and pride” Quite right. There is most definitely that idea of havoc and decimation of whatever might be left of one’s self esteem and security as a relationship ebb’s out. I feel like your experience isn’t just similar but the exact same.

It does make me sad so many can relate. I wish we didn’t. So much heartache. I suppose that helps to make all the sweet things that much sweeter.

I am completely humbled by your thoughtful compliment alluding to a “poetic prowess”…if only. But I’ll certainly sit a bit taller with this lovely and ever so thoughtful comment.

As per, thank you for the RL add and, oh, just everything else... Xo
H🌷

there exists
a core
which no one
can conquer
and there, exists the place of birth
of the freedom
this poem
emanated from there.

art H.

Dear CF,

I’m blown away by this comment. Utterly speechless. Thank you very much for this lovely response and generous RL add. I’m so honored by this, truly. Thank you. H🌷

Damn this is good on so many levels, poetic, dramatic and emotional.

Bravo

Dear W,

Thank you. I’m very touched and flattered by your response and generous list add. Always a delight to have you visit my page. Makes a lovely start to the day. Thank you.
H🌷

Hi H,

They say less is more,and you've certainly shown that with this poem. What a powerful,brilliant piece of writing.

Sharon.

Dear S,

Thank you very kindly for this lovely comment and generous RL add. I’m so flattered. This is a fabulous start to my day. Thank you. H🌷

Dear DK,

I really enjoyed the insight of the gnostic gospels. I was not aware of this and I find it very interesting. Your lovely comment is poetry itself and wonderfully insightful. I find I’m rereading it to continue gaining strength and wisdom from it. Thank you so much for adding this to your RL list, I’m honored. Thank you. H🌷

A tone of indifference;When a woman has endured and can no longer bear!

Dear P,

That is the sum total of it. Then it’s time for a change. I’m very grateful for your read and thoughtful comment. Thank you. H🌷

Dear R,

LOL, you might just be onto something. There is a certain level of comfort rooting around in dirt and thorns. Thank you for your wonderful comment and generous RL add. I’m indebted to you. H🌷

Dearest, Honoria🌹
I identify too well with this powerful piece. I understand it from the speaker's perspective but way too closely from the addressee's point of view. Like daggers are these words. It's one of the hardest, saddest feelings to be relegated to one who must get out of another's sight. I'll admit to getting somewhat choked up when reading this poem. That's a  beautiful thing to evoke such emotion. Bravissima dear goddess poet and confidant 💕

Dear GW,

Yes. This cuts both ways for sure. Equal parts sadness for the speaker and the receiver. Truth be told I choked up writing it. I’d much rather write a giggler than a sniffler but life doesn’t ever seem to allow that for me. 😏 at least not lately. I’m really grateful you stopped in today. Thank you for your kindness and honest insight. And of course the overly generous RL. We’ll get to giggling again soon. X
H🌷

Wow... how did I miss this one... excellent write H...

Dear L,

Thank you very kindly for your lovely comment and generous RL add. I’m much obliged for both and happy to see you. Thank you again. H🌷

Dear T,

Wait…I’m sorry…I feel like I’ve just won the poemcademy award!!! I’m overwhelmed by your outrageously lovely comment and RL add. Thank you so much for such a gracious response. As my heart soars and my head gets a little big 😊
I’m very grateful to you. Thank you.
H🌷

such power felt in just a few words.

Dear J,

Thank you for such a lovely comment and RL add. I’m so touched by both and really appreciate this. Thank you.
H🌷

There is a real joy here in knowing I could come up with meaning and totally be wrong! Obsession, addiction, and even personification all come to mind.
Nicely penned!

Dear JM,

Thank you for reading and putting your own spin on this. I think that’s what poetry is meant to be and that’s great. Thank you again for your lovely comment. H🌷