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Tender, tiresome and encompassing of all things a mother endures and has pleasure in. Gorgeous poem!

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Thank you so much!

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…and what a legacy You have, thank you for sharing!!!

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Thank you for reading ♥️♥️

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Love this poem! And the prompt just fits so well.. the mother, the Greek goddess, the warrior! you put so many of my thoughts and feelings of motherhood into beautiful verse! I feel seen!

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Thank you, Hannah! I was so pleased with the process, telling a story that’s not mine but also mine, somehow. ♥️

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This is a lovely. I love the intertwining of myth and the reality of children and mothers.

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Thank you, LeeAnn! I appreciate that!

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Thank you for sharing your poem Kristine. It's beautiful! I loved it in light of Mother's Day coming this Sunday as well.

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Thank you! You live this too, don't you, your own path in our star-clustered sky?

And look at you with the first comment! INBOX ZERO, BABY!

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Kristine it took me far too long to open my email and find your remarkable poem. I love the idea of this poem "writing itself" while you flung shoes about and other homemaking like things.

Also, the inclusion of the origin of 'poiema' echoing my own work and space--we are God's made thing....and He makes beautiful things through you.

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