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Cynthia Sharp
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August 05
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June 2011
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Alone and Together – A Conversation Inspired in Collective Solitude
I open to sky clouds and blue summer yield to the peace of lying still back eases into alignment injuries subside this life I wish I’d shared with you I surrender to solitude, creation and writing focus lying in wild flowers like I did in my twenties, wishing you were with me that we hadn’t been cut apart.
It’s the kind of July day when mellow music drifts in windows over nei
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“birch – hope butterflies – change, transformation, inner growth cypress – mourning daisies – innocence, purity dragonflies – ancestors fireflies – life, sexuality hummingbirds – hope and beauty, the sun in disguise, infinity in the flight of their wings phoenix – rebirth poppies – remembrance raven – in some cultures death, in some cultures a bringer of light associated with Creation rose (red) – romantic love rose (yellow) – friendship sage – powerful cleansing sweetgrass – a grandmother medicine sycamore – hidden treasure”
― How to Write Poetry: A Resource for Students and Teachers of Creative Writing
― How to Write Poetry: A Resource for Students and Teachers of Creative Writing
“I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
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― Snow Falling on Cedars
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
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― A Temple of Texts
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