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Wow. I felt the slashes as wing beats.

Three words, eh?

Could be difficult

Could be fun

I’ll take it

And run, run

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Apologies feeling teaseful this morning.

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I love it Tamsin!

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Thank you, too kind really. It almost felt disrespectful to ping this out. So apologies. It’s like I feel poetry should always be hard. Learning to rid myself of that slowly.

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Absolutely not! I really believe that we need to hold onto to play in poetry - so thanks for sharing this.

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The words pulled me out into my garden, dressing gown and all and it was just magic. Thank you 🙏

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Thank you Zoe <3 that means a lot

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Really looking forward to trying this! Love the idea of form as light.

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Would love to read what you come up with, Jodie!

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Like Tamsin, I also saw the slashes as representative of wings 😍 a beautiful poem and I’m excited to try this three word idea - I’m definitely not usually good at paring things back so I think this will be a great exercise!

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Thank you Ellen, and I'd love to see where you take the three word idea!

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Love the absolute freedom in this poem. Beautiful.

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<3 <3

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Excellent essay! Decades ago, I heard a monologue in a TV drama would have been lost, but I heard a poem needing its own container, so I placed the same words inside the poetic shaping, showing it to a few friends.

Nearly 25 years later, one of those friends contacted me and said how much of an impact that poem had on them.

Containers matter.

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Truly! It's incredible how poems can linger.

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Love this deepening of form and the poem, thank you. I agree that it is a dance between both. Sometimes the structure helps bring the words into context and other times the words just pour through me in the form they demand to exist. So many water puns lol ;)

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Thank you Zoe! And I always appreciate a well placed pun :)

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Beautiful, the poem brought to life so much imagery as I read 💛

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Thank you Tansie, I'm thrilled to hear that

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