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bigtree

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Tue Feb 9, 2021, 12:21 PM Feb 2021

Hearts

Last edited Wed Feb 10, 2021, 02:22 AM - Edit history (3)

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Love is what's partaken when someone takes time
To reply to persons mostly unknown to them,
Sharing a bit of the precious kindness we possess,
Benignity we grow and store inside our minds,
Troubled and aspiring, lonely, injured, and intrepid.

Hope is a brave promise made to ourselves and others
That someday we might gather up love and fashion it
Into a community of caring which helps sustain us all,
Like the community of interests assembled here at DU.

We bring it all; anger, resentment, pain, sorrow, angst.
There's also joy, achievement, redemption, forgiveness here;
All of the ingredients that go into life's stew, sweet and savory,
With the hearts we give each other spread all over these pages.


Thank you for all the hearts, DU.

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Hearts (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2021 OP
My eyes welled up! So kind of you, perceptive, lovely! Karadeniz Feb 2021 #1
thank you, Karadeniz bigtree Feb 2021 #2
What a sweet poem. Greybnk48 Feb 2021 #3
thanks, Greybnk48 bigtree Feb 2021 #4
. bigtree Feb 2021 #5
That's really nice. cwydro Feb 2021 #6
thanks, cwydro bigtree Feb 2021 #7
K and r. cwydro Feb 2021 #8
. bigtree Feb 2021 #9
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