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Wonderful reflective narrative, your words brought me along with your memory and thoughts.

Wow. I looked up a few words: harmattan, dandle, and obeisance. Each bring further nuance. The first stanza is a wonderful invocation.

Thanks! I'm finding these haiku are great reminders of those moments.

Thank you.

It's that and/or how you receive even the most compassionate truth but your mind was set against receiving it.

Thanks, I spent last night pencil in some ideas and I hit on "We are the words that we eat" and felt there was something so very poetic in that turn of two common phrases in American English

Some thoughts/words I'd love to see developed: Initiative Success Stewardship Growth Community

Thanks for the details on testing gold for its composition.

I do have a Discord account. What do you need for me to connect?

I have a recording of about 50 seconds of the brown thrasher; it was the bird that woke me up and I thought "Wow there must be several birds outside my window." Nope, it has several different

To my knowledge crows operate in gangs. I've seen barn swallows and tree swallows comingle with dragonflies as they all darted throughout the air above the field. They were all eating small pests.

Also, this year I've written quite a few poems, mostly haiku form; I'm committing to publishing the poems here then a week or so later on my site.

Thanks. I really loved writing about the birds in meadow. When we moved here it was a vast (invasive) grassland. We put up bird houses and started planting trees. In the ten years, we've watched the types

Oh wow, I'm glad I could invoke such a feeling.

I'd be up for moderating.

Hmm. I don't edit what my mind births but thank you for pointing that out. Wow! I rehash and rework mine.

When I'm reading poetry, I tend to stumble on repeat phrases so close together. My mind wants to say "can we mix the words to re-expess or re-interpreate the previous phrase."

Thank you. A significant challenge with bluebirds is the starling population; the starlings are aggressive and will take over the bluebirds habitat. Starlings are unwitting colonists of North America,

I love poems of winter.

Also, I just started following @bananafish to see their contests.