like a haunting melody an unsung canticle aching to be heard begging..a release from anguish I kneel in the emptiness of a barren silence a captive of time I cradle my hopes in the changing hues of eternity. as I lie down burned... under sycamore skies I give time a rebirth my heart bewildered by time's inconsistency I kneel and beg for time...
BEATUTIFUL
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Thank you , Naren.
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PLEASE DONT SAY THANKS ….MAM
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I appreciate that you read my work. Am honored.
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👌🏼
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😊
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That’s so beautiful, dear Yassy!! 💙
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Thank you , Phoebs. ❤️hope you are well.
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I like this poem a lot, Lady Yasmin
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You do! Thank you , Lord Zoolon!
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Superb write ☺♥
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Thank you, Phil!😊
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Something tells me time is on your side Jasmin.
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another work of art!! ❤
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Thank you, Venessa. 🤗😘
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Beautiful
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Thankx.
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Your welcome. ;o)
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Truly beautiful!
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Thank you , Nico.
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Peace
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Peace blessings
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I am astonished, again. I don’t know why because I’ve come to expect such beauty but I am amazed each time I read. Thank you Yassy. Hugs and many blessings to you :):)
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I am so happy you like this 🤗 made my day. Thank you my dear Angel. Can’t thank you enough. You are my blessing.
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🙂
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Sweet Yassy 🤗 my dearest 🙂 You are always on my mind. How are you dear one? I haven’t been around as much but not because things are bad. Things are busy but in a good way 🙂 Everyone I know is safe and healthy. I pray that includes you 🙂 You deserve all the safe and happy this world can give 🙂
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So happy to hear from you. I haven’t been around much either. Very very relieved to hear from you.
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A great poem, Yassy. It is funny but I read another article about time today and also wrote a haiku about the sands of time. Great minds think alike!
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Thank you , Robbie dear, indeed , yes, great minds do think alike.
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Beautiful
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Thank you , Bethanyk.
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So many good lines, Yassy. This one “in the emptiness of a barren silence” really gave me a prod. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you very much , Simon. Have a nice day. Take care.
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Wow. This is a verse of deep power and beauty… thank you for sharing it, Yassy. 🙂
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Thank you , Buffy !
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Stunning!
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Thankx buddy.
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Reblogged this on richwrapper and commented:
Yasmin “Yassy” Yaskhan Yes, Just Yes! Add another to her canon. A stunning example of wit, wisdom and tale-telling told in verse. She sometimes doesn’t call me Bruce – and I am sure The Jewett rejoices each time – Please read and know why I don’t mind.
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You you you
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Brucey
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Jewett. Jewel of a man is Bruce Jewett.
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I suspect you both share the same smirkingly playful smile – I know his; I lookforward to yours – when I serve up the ChristosYMoros with papas en tomatoey broth, sideswiped by Epazote, parsley and Puerto Rican Thyme with undercurrents of toasted cumin seeds and assorted halved hot peppers.
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Sounds yummy. Can’t wait.
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It was last night. When I get back from this typing I have a baguette to bake for sopping and slopping. Will bake in the Norelco 18-quart (probably much larger but I forget which) in the “Florida” room attached to the rest of the house and office to keep the heat out. The 60+ degree F temps in the morning are delicious, as is the stew – should I add chorizo or polish sausages – both? Thanks! Good Suggestion – to the reaheat. Made enough – 2 pounds of turble beans with onions, carrots, celery and a halved and seeded green bell pepper, per the original Cuban black beans-n-rice recipe. I drool. I bid goodbye, Yassy. Best wishes. Say Bruce Hi for me.
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Hi Bruce. Bye Bruce. Drooling. Slurp slurp
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Forgot to add the thee-inch cube of salt pork I used to add to the olive oil before the sofrito – onion, celery, carrot, bay leaves, and later both garlic crushed and whole went in and later yet by a few minutes as the veg “sweated” a full six-oz can of tomato paste to “brown” and add umami to the whole shebang. For vegetarian use, sub the – oh, deficate! forgot the rest of the T-word that works as fermented soy blocks to add a meatlike and/or umami taste element. Crimini – pr- portabella and therefore less expensive musrooms even the often overlooked to probably more tasty button mushrooms (a brown crimini and later porta-schroon is just a darker shade of button. Get the ones with the gills just starting to appear undersid – like bananas, mushrooms assume a better taste profile when just at the peak of ripeness, thus a little splotchy and not all pristine. Sorry: forgetting the salt port turned into a treatise. Fermented Tofu!…Starts with a T. It’s great fried in a little olive or veg oil and gets crunchy and unlike silken or even more stolid forms of tofu, actually has some of its own taste: still unremember the name. Sorry Your Yassyship. I will lube the memory module later today with fermented barley and rice.
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How could you?
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So easily. I will not shock you further with my world-class forgetfulness. You I remember. The seat and lid on the “necessary” not-so-much. Sometimes I invent dishes based on what I forgot; sometimes, though I just don’t admit it when it turns out fine.
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Cooking up a hurricane in the kitchen place.
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I delayed the basic baguette and the rye/whole wheat until tomorrow. Will have a nice fat ripe big tomato to rub with garlic to make thick-slab outside smoke-roast toast to go with a half-salmon over fennel leaves (from garden) with green onions and ichi ban eggplant split lengthwise with olive oil and wild garlic salt-pepper mash on the hand-built (with no mortar) brick cooker/smoker/grill. Will have to man the water buckets, hose and shovels/rakes/hoe for fire protection: grill is just below a now 20+-foot ball Bald Cypress, as I spend the day garden-read-beer drinking with a modest cook to boot. Left over salmon due to delight a casserole of what I find in the pantry and fridge but will include parboiled potato slices and onion rings, sesame seeds, pimento, bell and hot pepper, (and I know to Italians it’s way past a venal sin) grated parmesan and some swiss melty cheese with paprika and more besides…half-n-half?
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Ah ! I love all Italy. The food, the people. But I love your cooking J! So ?
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Shall I make a book and leave plenty of space for you to fill in your own ingreeds?
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Yup , do that. Let’s collab a dish. Named Richwarpped Dish. Bruce is a dish
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He taught me ricecakes in Oahu. A natural Tagalog, he. We and Roger RappingStone formed a triumverate of terror to officious lifers and ossifers whilst enjoying Marine military life in Hawaii. Bruce did not swim well, and we were less than fine diners or even cookers, interests ranging to other pursuits. I shall propose recipe subjects – and should (or would, since shoulds and shits attract the same kinds of flies – and you propose same to Bruce. His nature – with a grandson creasing his behind-both-ears smile might be so entranced if you dangle posterity before his eyes. (That’s called Return Serve in both tennis and tease). What are your categories/dishes, m’dear?
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Cheesy chocolate pasta lasagnes bolognaise ah
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Chocolate? A hardened mole (sorry, no diacritical) for to seep into the sauce. Sounds fabulous. I have a couple of riffs on lasagne – boil or dry – and teardownthehouse sauce.
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Yummy 😋 Saucy Brucey
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I am coming to Florida , Bruce. Keep a chair for me at the table. Tell the missus.
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No current pretender to the title missus, Yassy. When you think? I may have to curtail plans to raid Barsoom for that!
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Let’s raid together. We will be a riot. Let’s take Mick along.
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I grinned from ear to ear, FYI
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Thank you , my friend Richly wrapped in generosity and kindness.
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Just returning serve, Dear Lady who writes deeply with lightness and being (and sometimes else besides).
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My good friend Bruce , how nice to see you here !
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Another excellent piece of poetry yassy. I like how you have changed the font style and size which gives an impression of submission and acceptance.
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Thank you , Davy! Still finding my way round these things, am so glad you liked it. Thank you 😊
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A pleasure yassy 🙂
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😊
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Always a pleasure to read your poetry, Yassy, it makes you think and entertains with its simplicity at the same time.
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Thank you very much , Dave!
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Your poem is deeply moving.
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Thank you, Suzanne.
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Reblogged this on Orthometry.
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Thanks Grant. 😊
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You are welcome!
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time, eternity, and beyond, you must endeavour!
your words, I’ve reiterated many times, our pleasure!
sycamore skies, leaves of many flamed toned hues,
don’t doubt, they endorse your words, your learned views.
ere your ploy, your words, humanity can, and does enjoy,
you write love, hope for the world, for all. life, a lifebuoy
ere you forget the world waits on you with much anticipation!
we lust, we crave for you to write for the worlds delectation.
🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 sycamore leaves
and a flower or two🍄 🌾 💐 🌷 🌹 🥀 🌻 🌼 🌸 🌺
Hugs,
Micks
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Oh! Mick! You are the best. You are an amazing man , I am too overwhelmed ! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
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🙂
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Mick, Mick Mick, sending a shout out to you.
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What a delightful endorsement, Mick! The sycamore skies, too, left me head-shakingly breathless. I loved your verse to her verse.
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Yes. I think you both should do a collaboration. It will be awesome.
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Mick is way beyond my ken – as are you. I have stayed hidden in this little corner because 1.) I am a professional world-class laze; 2.) my iamb-counter is broken and I’ve lost my trochee touchstone; 3.) my notebooks are too small in both lenght and breadth to encompass more beats and measures you both deserve, and 4.) but not finally, I await the vast ordered movements I must attend ere I again face such delicious tasks as flinging up mine own unsnarked series of words-following-words following patterns and point. So, to shorten: ha! This long excuse: I’d rather see what you two will put out front of your combined store so I might stroll by and swipe a nice juicy piece of pure magic!
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Bruce, you are not goin to be let off that easily. Hey, Mick, where are you , my good friend ?
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I respond to beatings I fear rather poorly. Bleatings work when there are worms to feed and fish to fry;
sometimes I succumb to cajole,
but more often I go borrow a spine
instead of sniff.
You, ma’am,
are a bully entire!
And enlistment officer to boot!
Resist, micketalbot, resist!
I forever pledge to fill your foxhole
you will not dig to my vast relief.
Besides: there are sycamore seas to discover painted under same skies!
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Bruce Jewitt, please take note, no getting away.
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Appreciated, thank you
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Thank you , gentlemen!
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Mmm, not sure about anymore collaborations, anyway precious Lady, have you given anymore thought to our blitz colab?
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Gimme a topic
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A blitz on nature, alternative lines, remembering 3, and 47 are important.
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Yeah okay
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Via email, yes?
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Yeah
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Ladies first, or me I don’t mind?
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You
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Done check your mail (Gmail)
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Blitz is fun
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Fabulous! Your imagery is so appropriate and evocative, goes well with the narrative. Keep it up yassy!
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Thank you very much, Sir!
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Breathtakingly beautiful, Yassy
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You are very kind, Nikki. Thank you 🙏🏼
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Beautifully written, Yassy.
🌷💙
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Thank you very much , Eob.🤗
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Goodness, I yearn to capture such depth in my work. I weep such jealous grateful tears. Well done.
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Thank you, Masa.. you are too kind .. I weep with gratitude reading your wonderful comment .. heartfelt gratitude 🙏🏼❣️
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Yassy – this is lovely.
Did you deliberately include ‘P Sep’ boxes with dotted lines in your formatting?
❤
David
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Thank you, David.
It’s all WP. I try not to experiment with my formatting..lol
🤗
Yasmin
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hmn
perhaps you cut and pasted from another program?
anyway, it’s truly lovely regardless ❤
Shabbat shalom,
David
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Yeah . 🤔
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“Only through time, can time be conquered.” T.S. Elliot, The four quartets.
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Yes , indeed 👍 thank you!
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Held captive by your words. 💓 “I kneel” ~ Two words tell a tale of a surrendering soul, praying for the one thing that has it chained.
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Thank you, Lee.
You hold me captive with your kindness 🌷🌹thank you sister sweet ❣️
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You are welcome, sister star spinner.🌟
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🙏🏼❣️
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WOW.
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Thanks, Lu ❣️
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Very beautiful ❤🌹
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Thank you ❣️🤗
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You’re welcome ❤🌹
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Splendid! 🙂
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Thank you 😊
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so, beautiful❤️
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Good one it means way too deep
Would also love you to read my blog if possible thanks 😊🙌
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Beautiful and poignant right now and similar to what I’ve just written
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Thank you 🙏🏼, will check it out.
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I think im in love
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