The perfect storm

I guess the storm might have settled subconsciously, it wasn't meant to be a commentary but I can see that takeaway.  

I really am appreciative of the kind words. To spark even an interest is a win in my book, so to be called compelling is beyond what I hoped.
Thank you for taking the time to leave your thoughts with me and for the generous list add. I'm humbled and sincerely grateful, Ted.
You've added a bit of fuel to my waning fire.  

This was just me trying to tell my insecurities to go fuck themselves, so it's nice to feel understood.
Thank you,
-B

Worries and pains swept clear away I hope. Loved the nautical taste to this, you are the captain of your own ship. Pick a heading safe journey to the peaceful lands
Love and light gorgeous
Ron x

I am definitely not surprised that you 'stowed away on board' my thought process here, my lovely pirate knight! 🏴‍☠️... *wink

You picked up exactly what I was hoping to put down in ink, perfectly. There's a kind of symbiotic loveliness, knowing another soul understands you that well through your writing and I'm beyond delighted that you absolutely do.  

All my warmest gratitude and love from across the pond ✨ 🌊 ✨

I hope you're doing well and having a ball during this month's Halloween tricks and treats..
🌹🖤⚔️
xo

''.....tramp down depression...''.  Lots of courage.  Way to go on the way out of the dark tunnel.     Kisses, Robert.  PS:  Looooooove the chosen pic.

Hey there, Robert!
Navigating that particular course of anxiety and depression can often be perilous, indeed.
Thank you for sharing your kind thoughts and generous insights with me.

It was such a nice feeling to see you had visited!  I hope you're finding yourself well, enjoying fall and the start to hockey season!!

Much love and returned kisses... Lol.. 💋
🌹💙
B

Making it through the storm is the only way to gain a sense of our own power.
On my R.L.


huggies,
buddhakitty.

Dearest bk,
I've been thinking about you all day today and yesterday and I'm so glad you stopped by and even posted more poetry yourself. I hope keeping your mind engaged here on DUP while your body heals, can be of some small comfort.  

In the real world, please know that I'd be visiting you and to finally bring you that shared cup of coffee in person that you and I have threatened to have together for so long.... In all my deepest sincerity - 💙

You are strong and will weather this storm, too. Much love and cheers through the ether! ☕*☕

(All my gratitude for the generous list add)  
-xoxox
-'ღ´-

Rianne,
Your visit has me all smiles. I think it's important to stretch ourselves and let the poetry sort of take you where it takes you. It's more than likely a place that you're desperately needing to visit to make sense of certain things, methinks.

I have this love/hate tug-of-war with the sea. I find it beautifully inspiring and healing. Unfortunately I get sea sick far too easily, which is beyond frustrating. I think it's a cosmic joke that I love something that's so close but yet so far out of discovery's reach.

My and my Dr's guess is that my inner ear was damaged from when I was a child; I had an unusual amount of ear aches/infections which where only treated when they occurred not ever preempted with prevention all together by putting tubes in my ears, which would have stopped that from being a continual issue. My mother just didn't have it done, for whatever reason... Therefore, I have random issues that affect me as an adult to this day; sadly, being on the water is one of them...

Hence letting my imagination and my love of the sea the ability to sail free in my created realm of poetry.

It's an honor to read that you've found inspiration here, lovely lady. I'm truly proud and delighted you have.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me and shining your light down upon ✨

Much love and appreciation, ⛵
B

Blue Oh Blue,

    "The Perfect Storm" is one ah speechless ah perfection of critical ah speech write. U are astounding!🍇👅🌷🍹🍺🍻🥂👁️🥥🤎🤍🥝🎶👄

Hey there, Birchel!!
I love getting your visits that inspire and fill me with such wonderful energy!

You know what's astounding!?!?!?

YOU!!! 🫵🏻

Thanks for the encouragement and awesome support. My work is never really proven to be a job well done until I see your spectacular Emoji displays!!
Totally Love it!!

All my warmest gratitude, my friend!
☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆
-B

Ah thank u so ah much much ah muchly Blue. And, u are so ah wholesomely ah welcomed too. It is ah great to ah know that my ah comments inspire u so ah muchly. U keep thy head up and stay it ah safely. Thy ah written ah works are an ah gift to me.👁️👅💋🍑🥝🥥🥃👄

Your spirit is always a gift, too.
It's a wonderful thing to have others look out for you and appreciate your voice.... It's meaningful!

I'll be around soon to read and check out some of your work as well...

Much obliged, my friend.
🌹💙 💙 💙

U are welcome! Thank u! And, the same much obliged to u as well.👁️💋👅🌷🥝🍇🧅🍑

Steve,
I concur, about the rain... I wish it were more possible here but I remember walking and playing in puddles all the time as a kid. I completely understand that cleansing feeling.

Understanding the space one occupies and the sometimes deep hole(s) that we can fall into, isn't an easy admitted feat for me. It's just how I'm made, that it's difficult for me to show vulnerability in the form of my own depression and anxiety. I don't like that part of myself and feel embarrassed a lot of times being too open with my struggles. That's probably why I use metaphors and poetic license...

You said it.... Just getting through the hard times, whatever it takes! That's right... 💯

Thank you for sharing your insightfulness. I adore you being here with me it's a wonderful joy that I'm glad exists here on DUP....and as my friend, period.

I feel likewise; I'll always be rooting for you, too!!!

Much love, respect and appreciation, my dear.
🌹💙
xoxo
(୨୧•͈ᴗ•͈)◞ᵗʱᵃᵑᵏઽ*♡

We ride the storm to victory.  Both you and me make to the other side of paradise.  Keep on writing you strong beautiful smart sexy woman.

Riding the waves of hope and happiness, indeed!!
Can you feel the wind 🍃 in your hair!?!? ⛵🌊 ✨

Thanks so much for sharing your sailboat with me Francisco! I appreciate the encouragement!

🌹

Paradise is waiting for you and me.

Fantastic… from start to finish… this one lured me in… then never let me go… excellent technique with spacing… deft line breaking… haunting echo of one closing word… one of your best…

You made my night, LilD.
I can't thank you enough for your wise insights very valued opinion. All my deepest thanks, dear one.

-💙

Depression can hit so hard some days. I know I have a very hard time with it. As good as some days are those bad days hit in a scary way "roaming far away
from hearth and home"

Keep up the fight my friend. Wonderful poem 😁

Hey DC,
You totally nailed it. I have this aversion to talking about my own struggles, so it's slow and always shielded in creative ways or in a metaphorical landscape... I know it's not the healthiest but it's progress. Bad days can be brutal, undead.

Thank you for sharing your own experiences with me and understanding like you do.

Much obliged, my friend
🌹B

Hi B:)

I just read Relic's deconstruction of your poem. Now reading it in it's entirety I can see why
he chose this to highlight. The feelings it invokes while reading really makes you feel on
your own journey in the middle of the perfect storm. Depression can sink you so I appreciate the
word buoyant in this. Strong from beginning to end:)

Dear A,
You're probably one of the only people who were kind enough to do so,(stop by Tim's piece) which I think is very cool. Tim went above and beyond and was super nice in offering to review my work but I warned that not many people would be interested, which he was aok with so I'm glad you were one of nice folks who left him a notification - I hope he feels that his time and effort mattered!  

As far as my poem, I am still like 🤯 that he dissected it down to the studs like he has.... It's an honor and I'm humbled he and you have found something that you can relate to or understand in that personal struggle of depression and anxiety... I dig that you picked up on that word buoyant; I really wanted that metaphor to stand out strong, so it felt awesome that you noticed and mentioned it.

Thank you for always bringing your vast insight and true warmth, lovely lady. It means a lot to me and many.

In abundant appreciation,
🌹💙
B

You enshrine darkness and make it your home until as a finale your courage flies you into a sky filled with hope and you buffet the cold winds into the mercy of love no longer forsaken. Your poem has given me the courage to face my own daunting storms. And by your example here I find the bravery in your own undaunted spirit. I loved the path you took here and the new horizons it made for you. You are a heroine in the truest sense of the word. The tempest found you but you flew into its face like an angel of power and might. I admire every fiber of your being my love.

XoXoXo
John

John,
It's what lies buried beneath, that's sometimes the hardest for me to articulate in my work. I have deep, sad reasonings attached to my want of nondisclosure and ingrained desire to be withholding but I am trying to grow and become more self aware and proactive, hence this attempt at fostering that very impulse. It's slow going but it's an attempt, nonetheless.

Your incandescent insight and astute commentary leave me nonplussed in a refreshing and hopeful way. I think we often can't feel ourselves being courageous until the moment has come and gone or it's pointed out; which is exactly why I appreciate your thoughtful comments as I do. You, finding inspiration within my little poem means the world, my friend. There aren't many things more cathartic or worthy than being fortunate enough with the pen to do that.

My heart is full, my mind at ease and my soul replenished with the very giving nature that is your beautiful way, my dearest.

Thank you for being here with me and investing in me with all that you do. I am beyond grateful and count myself so incredibly lucky.

Much love and respect,
🌹💙
-Susan

I hoped you'd stop by and leave your thoughts. I figured you would absolutely get where I was coming from and I was certainly curious of your pov. It seems that sometimes those currents can hide dangerous rip tides, which can often surprise you... So for me, when I admittedly tend to mostly suffer in silence, it's truly soul infusing to be understood with those who can identify; surrounded by voices of solidarity and non judgment is a gift all it's own.

Thank you again for being the kind of person who takes the time to leave your very valued feedback. I didn't realize how much it really meant to me to get that one on one until I started reading... I'm greatly appreciative.
🌹💙
-B

Very nice.
It is like  existing in a story that the brain tells itself...

Thank you, Marks
-⊱ღ꧂

You're welcome, Bluevelvete.  ... 👍

The writing's phenomenal.  

True high praise, coming from a writer I admire so.
Thank you so very much.

🌹💙
B

"A face full of brave" -Excellent!

Along with the accompanying picture, this write makes me think of you standing atop the Empire State building, gazing down below at the everything.  
And realizing, it's a good day, and you're taller than New York City.  

What a very refreshing write you have done here.  It's awesome.

Thanks, Mark

It was probably me trying to convince myself more that anything. No one really wants to read the sad reality of someone who's not remotely brave at all so just a bit of poetic license, but I very much appreciate where your thoughts took you... Yeah, If only.

Much obliged for the generous list add and the time taken.  

-B

Maybe you need to see you where I see you.  It's a good view.  

The way you used rivulets, made the description vivid.

This piece made me think of the quote, “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” ― John A. Shedd.

But your tags lead me to a different path. Although, as is, should find you content, you seek chaos (squalls) and unknown, or generate hardships. Then use your wit and fortitude to persevere. Just being buoyant isn’t enough, you need to tread water to feel you are making progress.

Interesting how you wove in sea metaphors.

My dearest, Leo

I love that word rivulet, it's just one of those quirks! I adore that you picked up on that asap. You know me well, my dear!

I think you see a lot, much more than I had gathered...

Yes the metaphors are of the sea mostly... I decided to go that way because it seemed apropos, considering my love/hate struggle with the water. I love swimming in the ocean, walking the beach, etc... I just hate boats... of any sort...so me attaching the sea metaphors to anxiety and depression, was a bit hopeful and a bit cheeky, as intended...

I'm not sure about my fortitude but I try, and that's the only thing I can ask of myself...

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me, Leo
It's one of my biggest pleasures here.

🌹 💙
-xo

Reads as if you lose yourself in your minds eye cast away the shackles of life and all its heavy baggage the myriads of certain cycles.
Rise to the surface and become almost like driftwood and find the relief of purchase on a distant but happy shore.
Becoming your true focused self, now content in your skin.
Pretty deep huh or maybe I misread it.
Whatever rubs your rhubarb and whatever gets you through the night can't be a bad thing.
Thanks BlueVelvete and hang in there, one day at a time and all that jazzie jazz.
Shaun.x.

Hey, Shaun,
You must be intimate with my particular kind of rhubarb rubbing... Har Har Har.. Because you nailed the intent, pretty closely.

Searching for that personal contentment, is an endeavor!

I deeply appreciate your eyes and insights.
It's not often a like minded soul washes ashore my beach 🏖.. So to speak...
Enjoyed playing in the sand.

I hope your Halloween is all you desired it to be!
Much love and and warm thanks,

🌹-B
xo

well done like a stream that gently flows to a river of life

I thank you greatly for your astute insights, DC.
I'm glad you enjoyed reading!

🌹B

Fantastic Blue, phenomenal.
I like how this feels depth and perception, emotional and spiritual while dealing with the struggles. It's also interesting (that as I'm catching up with my reading and I had bumped my other piece) that these two pieces have similar motifs, one observing and the other regaling it from the first person.
Simply amazing work.

Yesss!! That's exactly why your bumped piece really stuck out to me!!! .. I instantly had shades of this one of mine going through my head when reading yours! It was super serendipitous that you chose that poem to bump out of all of the poems that you've written... I fell into its imagery and theme... So, thanks for being a kindred spirit, my friend and for taking the time to really appreciate me and my writing.... it's such a true joy and wonderful experience, having you visit.

Much thanks, W
You're awesome.
🌹 💙 - 🌊
-B