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James Freitas's avatar

Thank you for writing and sharing this Emma. Like Neil, I really enjoyed your poem—particularly the stanza about reasons one’s dreams might not happen.

“Either I am blocking them with doubt

Or the time is not ripe

Or there is something better in store

I cannot see from this angle

I have to live life, walk the spiral path”

That idea of a spiral path is apt—it isn’t just point a to b, it goes indirectly and we have to trust it. A lack of trust makes us block with doubt. What I took away from this, and pardon me if I’m misinterpreting, is to trust the spiral—the time it takes to travel in a spiral allows things to ripen, allows the right things to arise. Thank you again for writing.

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Neil Barker's avatar

I really enjoyed this poem, Emma. I like these lines especially:

"The truth of our mind

Is that through it we create our own destiny"

This really resonates with me. I like that aspect of the truth of our mind and creating.

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