Elan Mudrow
Smidgens
Scapegoat’s Paradox
Holding it in, close, became a strength
An essence, a nugget, bloom’s heart
Shaped by chinks, cracks, and splits
Of a shell you wished was a softer hue.
Relinquished, expelled, produced a body
The lucid form of your careful ambiguity
From a cold clay, carved and baked
An Image of remedy, poison, and sacrifice.
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As always Elan you keep it short and sweet. Thanks for trying the unique and new. Love the idea 👌💖👌
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Beautiful sense of words telling me something hiding in the shadows.
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Thanks. I appreciate that!
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I really have loved reading your poetry – it resonates.
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Fantastic, love this so much
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Beautiful expression, Elan.
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“An Image of remedy, poison, and sacrifice”… indeed!!! 😍
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Wow, what a lovely scenery! Great photo, Elan.
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Yes. I want it that way. Thanks. In a way, you become the writer of my words.
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It is so elusive. Every time I read it, I almost feel I know the meaning behind the words. But then, I look again, and it is lost.
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REBLOG : So much talent lies throughout WordPress if you just do some simple searches. This poet talent will simply speak for herself. I became lost with her elegant style and lovely descriptive words. Hope everyone enjoys.
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Amazing piece of writing…
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“The lucid form of your careful ambiguity” that’s what comes flying out one day when you can’t hold your feelings in anymore, when that carefully constructed invisible shell cracks wide open. Well written, Elan, honest and evocative. 🙂
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beautiful, the words, exquisitely put together.
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Such contrasting values, and, strange to find it, all in someone who’d been, scapegoated for something s/he didn’t even do, and it surely is, too easy, to scapegoat on someone else, than take the responsibilities ourselves that’s for sure!
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this is incredible.
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Interesting scenes. 😎🥀
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Soft and biting, a paradox! Yes. Thanks
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This is beautiful. The words are at once soft and biting. So Good!
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