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Donna Mazzitelli's avatar

Thank you, Marisol, for such exquisite writing married with thought-provoking imagery. There is so much to take in and ruminate on. So much expressed that mirrors what I’m feeling. May we continue to “light each other’s way.” Thank you for lighting my way today.🌟

We, us, and-both, one

Empathy, grief, love, grace, peace

Healing, holy, whole.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Thank YOU, Donna dear~

May we be mirror, lighthouse*

Welcome to our pause!

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Stephanie Raffelock's avatar

Pregnant with feeling, these words, for these times. The hope and the angst sided by side. I'm happy to walk next to you and not feel so alone in my fears or in my dreams for better . . . we can all do better.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Creative kind crone,

we can all do better, yes!

Angst, fears, hope, dreams. Joined.

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Rea de Miranda's avatar

We should not allow anything to divide us. Divine love for all sentient beings. Lovely post, Marisol!

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Resist divisions,

sea, soil, soul separations.

See one loving truth.

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Holly Starley's avatar

These are beautiful, Marisol.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

“Beautiful,” she says.

Holly Starley’s stories, belles,

as Ruby rides gems.

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Leslie Rasmussen's avatar

I feel like I just sat by a brook and listened. You do wonderful art with words, they seem to splash and burble. Thank you for them all, I'm becoming a we.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Through example, praise

Leslie prompts us to listen.

Brookside splash, burble.

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WilM's avatar

Thank you, Marisol, for this moving clarion call to love. I'm with you! 🌟💚

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Clarion call to love!

Wilm hears, heeds, reaches out, joins.

May we all be moved*

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WilM's avatar

Indeed!! 🤞🙏💚

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Susan Nordin's avatar

In the body, the interstitial spaces are where critical exchanges of information take place. Like your liminal spaces, the space between us, the sacred space of possibility. Where the next thing hasn’t happened yet, and what comes next depends on how we orient towards one another or not.

I noticed your mention of illness. May health and wellbeing carry the day. And also may the experience of illness be a doorway to being deeply supported and held in a time of coming apart.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

May we meet in kind

interstitial spaces, gaps.

Dr. Nordin, thanks!

...

With its ups, downs, doubts,

serious illness challenge most.

Sooner or later.

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Susan Nordin's avatar

It's the spaces in between where the magic is found.

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Gary K's avatar

Hate is hard for some of us to understand or relate to. Guess it exists, tho seems self-defeating.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Hate, self-defeating

helps no one, hurts every one.

Love, win-win for all. 😊

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Deborah Gregory's avatar

Every line of every verse resonates! How could it not? Thanks so much Marisol for offering wisdom, reflection and guidance. There's so much here to muse on. For every poem, haiki, intention speaks loudly to the heart of this hairy, holy human! ❤️

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Deborah, holy,

heart heard here, human woman!

Hairy, hilarious. 😊

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Kabir  Arghandiwal's avatar

Such gems. Wow

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Welcome to this space!

Between us we find true gems*

Thanks bow for restack~

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Neil Barker's avatar

I really like this collection of haiku, Marisol - especially "Opportunities." Thank you for sharing.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

We both ask questions.

Thanks for sharing this/your space~

And for restacking!

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Neil Barker's avatar

You're welcome, Marisol!

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Sally Gillespie's avatar

Thank you Marisol , each haiku here so touching,together deeply moving and thought provoking in best possible way.

What a gift you have for living and for poetry 🙏💚🪷

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

What a gift you give

by such touching, moving words.

And thought-provoking! 😊

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Veronika Bond's avatar

"We means all of us...

We are each other"

Yes!

Some time ago, in a conversation with my daughter, she told me of a workshop she'd attended, where everyone was supposed to introduce themselves "with their pronouns"...

I thought about it for a couple of seconds and replied, "I would have said, my pronouns are we/us/ours."

She laughed.

I meant it, seriously.

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Preferred pronoun: We.

Yes, we mean so seriously!

When sign, by bylines. 😊

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Philip Harris's avatar

Strangers, proverbs,

Heaven even

Hell

Blake, poet

Bless relaxes

Marriage

Fits all sizes

Used with love

Damn Braces

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Philip reaches deep

memory, reflection, ties

knotted in bow, loose

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Stephanie C. Bell's avatar

This was both incredibly lovely and totally unusual. Appreciate your unique lens Marisol.

THIS!!! "We are each other."

Adore you. ❤ ❤ ❤

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

You found the essence,

the four words that say it all!

Adore your ardor <3 <3 <3

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Daily dilemmas,

far from fable, fantasy.

In facing it all.

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