Heart’s Eye
Who can pass a bookstore door
and fail to note the vellichor
or fail to feel within their heart
the message of a piece of art?
A poignant poem or pithy quote,
well-loved and thereby learned by rote,
is a means by which we might denote
that part of us that we devote
to what we can’t repudiate—
that part of us that is a gate
to a special way of seeing—
the heart’s eye of a human being.
Word prompts for today are art, repudiate, vellichor and denote.
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What a beautiful poem Judy.
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Thanks, Sadje. I barely got that one in under the wire. I had a bad night Monday night and only slept for a couple of hours. Came home after medical tests, fell asleep at 4 and slept until 11:30 P.M. Got this published less than 2 minutes before midnight, but for some reason it never showed up in notifications, so I reblogged it and voila! It would have been the first time in seven years that I haven’t written and published a poem!
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I saw the notification but no post was showing. I hope you’re feeling better now. Hugs.
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They posted the original ten minutes or so after the reblog. Go figure.
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Lovely poem, Judy.
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Thanks, Dolly.
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You are very welcome, Judy.
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