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  1. Parker Owens
    Thank you. I’m glad these connected with you.
  2. Parker Owens
    Your story made me laugh! What a wonderful memory. I’m glad the second poem was vivid enough to bring it back to you. I’m also glad you liked number three; it’s the mist visual of the set. Thanks very much for the inspiration for this group of poems. I look forward to trying more.
  3. Parker Owens
    You’re very kind. I’m happy the appeal to your senses came through in these. Thanks for your thoughts and for reading.
  4. Parker Owens
    Thank you, tim. I’m really glad you thought it worked. Now maybe I can try some more!
  5. Parker Owens
    @Backwoods Boy I’m glad that you think these work. I propped up last year’s Christmas tree on a small trail behind my house, and I get a Yuletide zephyr every time I walk past. Thank you so much for your response and for reading!
  6. Parker Owens
    Scents seem to evoke strong memories for me; cut grass, evergreen, lilac - each brings different scenes to mind. Thanks very much for your response!
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    1. A weekend rule that’s surely true: your list has more than you can do. ~ I pickled beans, tied up tall tomatoes, showed timid cucumbers how to climb, and propped up tithonia nodding in the sun; but I could do nothing to hold back the clouds counting each hour overhead. ~ ~ ~ 2. We can’t control what fragrance tells nor does it cease to weave its spells. ~ I
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    Explorers

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Explorers

    I’m very glad this poem stirred good memories of shared hikes and journeys. Each person on those paths today may wonder as you did, and know that their experience is as new to them as yours was to you. Thanks for reading this and for your thoughts.
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    Explorers

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Explorers

    It’s interesting that two people can travel the same road, yet see it differently. I think that’s why it’s fun to journey together with another either literally or metaphorically. It lets us share that experience together, even as we color it in our own ways. Thanks very much for reading!
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    Explorers

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Explorers

    I urge you to try tackling a sonnet. I know there is some excellent supporting material on sonnet writing elsewhere on GA. I sometimes wonder how my experience of a place or relationship in the present moment might compare with someone’s in another time. As you say, they will be two different things. Many thanks for reading, and for your reactions.
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    Explorers

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Explorers

    I think you’re right - if it’s the first time for me, that makes it more intense and full of memory and color - for me. And if this conveys something of that, and helps you feel it too, then I’m happy. Thank you very much for reading this and for your thoughts.
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    Explorers

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Explorers

    You and I share that delight in feeling that we’re explorers trailblazing. And you’re right again that our own special isolation can might help us appreciate that others have shared our delights before us. Thank you so much for reading and for your reflection.
  13. Parker Owens

    Explorers

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Explorers

    Thank you!
  14. Parker Owens
    Now come my love, let us as two explore a territory left unsung, unmapped, unknown, where wait such wonders, numbered by the score, that careful reason might be overthrown. Together, a delightful path we’ll tread, through ridges, hills and sunlit valleys stray, where climbs the rarest rose to bloom in red atop a monument along our way. Yet even as its mysteries we plumb, it's clear we’re not the first to travel there, For others left a mark or pr
  15. Parker Owens

    Thirty-Seven

    Parker Owens commented on Drew Payne's story chapter in Thirty-Seven

    What an eye and ear opening chapter for Liam. That he managed to sit through it is a wonder; even more of a wonder is how Gemma Clarke ever allowed herself to be booked on that show. Usually, the mouthpieces and useful idiots of the far right are shepherded and cosseted on friendly media outlets. Bravo.
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    24 - (Ex)Past

    Parker Owens commented on JACC's story chapter in 24 - (Ex)Past

    This is an interesting reflection on the relationship we have with our pasts. Sometimes, something we think was buried and forgotten re-emerges. Your poem reminds me that it need not reestablish itself as a center of my existence.
  17. Parker Owens
    I originally chose the sarabande because I liked the sound of the word as it rolled off my tongue. Then, after listening to several, both the rhythm and the poem grew. I’m glad this poem reached into your head and lightened your heart.
  18. Parker Owens
    Thanks a million. I’m glad the images and impulses got your mind on its toes.
  19. Parker Owens
    You’re very kind.
  20. Parker Owens
    There’s another excellent reason to keep the door to the basement firmly closed. I’m afraid my Texas two-step would embarrass the entire state. But in the give and take of life and love, perhaps it might be forgiven.
  21. Parker Owens
    I’m very glad this little quartet moved you. The image of a stately galliarde around the kitchen island makes me smile. Thank you!
  22. Parker Owens
    If not supper, then breakfast the morning after. Thank you very much for accompanying me to the dance!
  23. Parker Owens
    My ink-stained fingers testify to the many jotted rhymes from which these were selected. Thank you for reading this, and especially for your kind and delightful response.
  24. Parker Owens
    And now it's a quaint dance that occasionally make an appearance at early music festivals and orchestral arrangements.
  25. Parker Owens
    Like Noah, I am immensely fond of ice cream sandwiches. I hope there will be enough for me, too.
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