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Andrea (Andy) Curran 🌄's avatar

Gorgeous reading! I love the music behind the reading it adds depth!

More Than Poetry's avatar

Thank you for reading and listening💛 I like to make poetry an experience, but am limited on-line. Otherwise, there’d be decorations, photos, and specific foods. lol.

Quiet Neon's avatar

Loved this deeply. The wild honeysuckle as tongues of fire, freedom, childhood wandering and a little dangerous holiness resonates so much with the misty, chaotic, sacred wildness I explore in NebelNexus. ‘I gathered sweetness without permission’ — what a line. Beautiful work.

More Than Poetry's avatar

Danke shön💛

Brandi Lynn's avatar

You've beautifully captured how the names we give the wilderness are never just about botany, but about remembering the fierce, unpermitted ways we find our own freedom ✨

More Than Poetry's avatar

Thank you so much for reading with such care and recognizing how the words speak to something beyond just the flowers💛💐

Janelle Hardacre's avatar

Thank you for sharing your read aloud version. A gift to hear your voice!

More Than Poetry's avatar

Thank you💛💛

Holly's avatar

This was amazing, your reading of it drew me in immediately there is something about listening to a poet read their own work. You brought it to life! A little dangerous a little holy, I will certainly listen to this again

More Than Poetry's avatar

Thank you so much💛 Your words mean a lot to me!

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

“It was never / just a flower” quietly holds the entire poem together.

I loved how the piece lets history, childhood, language, sweetness, danger, and memory all remain inside the same living thing without forcing them apart. “Enough to make power nervous” was a beautiful ending.

More Than Poetry's avatar

Thank you for reading with such care. I think too often we like things neatly categorized, including people. 💛