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Searching for the Words's avatar

I was glad to read you here, Linda. Glad to read this. Thank you.

Linda Hoye 🇨🇦's avatar

Thank you for reading, Patricia. ❤️

Jude's avatar

Welcome back :-)

Linda C. Wisniewski's avatar

I read one of the lines in your poem "Break the damn open" because that's how I feel right now. Break open your heart, break open my country and start all over again, break open and write.

Shana Pack's avatar

"Turtling." 🐢❤️

Linda Hoye 🇨🇦's avatar

Thought that might make you, and a couple of others, smile.

Jeanne Guy's avatar

God how I love your writing. Comes from deep inside your heart and touches my heart.

Linda Hoye 🇨🇦's avatar

Oh, Jeanne, thank you. Your words mean so much.

Marilea C. Rabasa's avatar

That's always why I write: to gain clarity. And have I ever! I think it's wonderful therapy.

Linda Hoye 🇨🇦's avatar

It’s therapy for sure, Marilea.

Stephanie Raffelock's avatar

These little books of poems -- so much in your story about the grace of being a writer. . . no accolades required, just the life of writing. Subscribers and followers are not what fill or will the heart, it's the words overflowing -- soul's message as to how it wants to express in the world. I asked myself, "could I write one bad poem a day," and giggled. "I should give it a try." Everything begins with one bad draft anyway until the dam is breached. Absolutely inspiring, Linda. Thank you so very, very much. With love and goodwill.

Linda Hoye 🇨🇦's avatar

You are already a poet in practice and soul, Stephanie. I hope try the “one bad poem a day” habit. Who knows what magic you might conjure!

Stephanie Raffelock's avatar

Well, let's see what magic and start here, from the middle, a place I've started from many times . . .

Linda Stoll's avatar

Resonating with so much that you've said tonight, friend. Actually, I was thinking of you this afternoon maybe while you actually were tapping away.

Serendipity.

Linda Hoye 🇨🇦's avatar

Love that, Linda.