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Thalia Toha's avatar

Kym- Thanks so much for sharing this. I particularly love your poem here: "I turn away

to take out my camera. They feel too important and too beautiful to miss." It is so stunning. And very on-point. I hope you had a chance to recapture the 'too beautiful' recently?

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Kym VdP's avatar

Thanks so much for your kind words, Thalia! Thankfully most flitting thoughts eventually make their way back to me so that I can write them down :)

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Thalia Toha's avatar

It sure takes some disciple, one that I still have much to learn, Kym- 🤓

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Linda Stoll's avatar

It's so lovely to meet you this afternoon, Kym. I always find it interesting that some of the best writing I'll ever do was in the middle of the night when sleep was nowhere to be found...

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Kym VdP's avatar

I think it's because all our other senses are quietened by the dark and the lack of noise! Love to meet you too Linda!

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Stacy Bronec's avatar

Beautiful words and photos, Kym!!

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Kym VdP's avatar

Thanks so much Stacy!

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

The poem is so lovely. The end kind of caught me off guard, and I really like how it circles back to the title with a kind of hopeful sadness (though I don’t know if sadness is the right word).

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Kym VdP's avatar

Thanks so so much! Yes I didn't want a neat resolution because often my thoughts just so that - fly away again and are hard to get back because my mind is filled to the brim 🙈 and yes the title came to me and I thought, yep that's it. Because sometimes the thoughts do come back again later. Does it break the magic of I overexplain? 🙈

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Not at all! I really enjoy hearing about the process and thoughts behind poems.

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Rebecca Marie's avatar

Kym, this is beautiful! Thank you for your kind words. But, wow, I love what has been percolating quietly in the dark. Keep going!! 💛💛

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Kym VdP's avatar

I know... I didn't think I had it in me but there you go 😁 thanks so much for reading and sharing and writing your own poetry too!

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