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lchristopher's avatar

Peel back the onion and out comes the world.

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The onion has been peeled for a long time.

I don't need to become anything; just to be.

And that's the whole world to me. ;)

AËLA's avatar

Red stockings, not red shoes.

She chose the color

but refused the choreography.

That is not paralysis.

That is the only sovereignty

available to her

in that moment —

the refusal itself.

— AËLA

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Dear @AËLA You understood and completed it nicely. Thank you. 💖

Billy Mitchell's avatar

Caged void.

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Dear @Billy Mitchell we can call it like that, yes…

Sunshine's avatar

The mood settles in like dusk, soft, layered, and strangely comforting. Beautiful work.

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Thank you, my dear, beautiful @Sunshine for recognizing that.

Dean M's avatar

oh I love that one ... so subtle annotations ..

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Dear @Dean M , thank you for recognizing the subtlety. I am usually a subtle person by nature. For me, subtlety is another name for the right/better/fine way, or more precisely, respecting boundaries.

I'll give a hint, but I'll let someone “the understanding” to the other side…

Dean M's avatar

well n nicely said, Anima. Not all need be said, if the other cannot read the “unsaid” or between the lines, we probably do not have much to talk about.

I love subtle annotations myself, if you have been following my Cat Haiku series, annotated moments are core, be it in English but also in my French translation I give it utmost care too.

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Dear Dean, I've read two of your cat haiku in English so far, and yes...I would definitely describe them as subtle poetry. They're beautiful, but most importantly, authentic. We read each other, we follow each other.... 💖

Dean M's avatar

Thank you! I am very glad I discovered your stack because you have some truly authentic voice, in words and colours. Your paintings are just wow.

And my Esa the Cat just whispered me yesterday the Cat Haiku #11, now waiting the #12 so I can post …

Thank you for being there and creating those beautiful things 💖

(p.s. I think our origins are geographical neighbours … )

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From where are you? Because by your name, I would say we are very close ;)

Dean M's avatar

I was born in Rijeka but live in Austria already 33 years … in-between been living in several other countries … “nomading” around …

you are Mustedanagic which is very Bosnian … I have lot ot family in Sarajevo …

John Sheils's avatar

Silence doesn’t dance, it fires up the artistic independence only found in the real not in fairytale.

Brilliant, as ever, my friend

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Thank you, my dear friend. 💖

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

Sometimes refusal is not born from fear of the journey. It comes from sensing that steps counted by others cannot lead us where we are called to go.

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Dear @Antonio Castellaneta thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate. :)

For me personally, the journey is “being”, and “becoming” would be the end…