 Poetry: May 10, 2023 Issue [#11959] |
This week: Vulnerability Edited by: Fyn  
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.~~Madeleine L'Engle
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.~~Brene Brown
One thing to remember is that human beings connect through vulnerability. That's our core way of connecting.~~Zoe Buckman
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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Vulnerability - being open to the world. It is allowing other to see we aren't perfect, that we in fact, have issues, faults, and IMperfections. And this is okay! It is okay to feel afraid or nervous or be terrorized by spiders. It is being able to communicate that we are angry or sad or simply, overjoyed!
Poetry, good poetry, is the act of a poet opening themselves up, of letting our emotions flow like blood and letting our vulnerabilities show because it is these that connect us to each other. Do I want to read about the 'perfect' life, romance, or encounter? No, not really. There is no story there, no emotion, nothing to connect to. Nothing to empathize with. Nothing to get.
Being vulnerable or writing vulnerable poetry requires we flay ourselves open: the good, the bad and, yes, the ugly come flowing out. There is an abject honesty shown that we don't necessarily see elsewhere. A reality surfaces and in that reality is the true connection we aim to foster. The heart shows, the eccentricity shows, and our minds are given a freedom to express the (perhaps) hitherto unspoken: It a way that lets others know one can get through, get by, and get beyond. It speaks of unvarnished truth.
Being, allowing one's self to be, vulnerable in writing, is a way to speak your truth, as you see/feel/experience it. It gives you a power to make those important points, or to express the words too many leave unsaid. And in doing that, we also give others the chance, the opportunity to connect in that we have opened a pathway to communicate. Otherwise we are but writing 'full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.'
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Aplogizing for a somewhat shorter-than-normal newsletter. My mouse curled up in a ball and died. Its connections disconnected. Not that there is ever a good time for a mouse to give up the ghost, but this morning it just faded off to mouse heaven. Which left my cut/paste abilities as well as my correction/editing necessities severely nonexistent!
christo  wrote:... when you were there, next to him, in Lahaina, and looked out at the sea, that huge chunk o' land 'just across the straight' was/is Lana'i, where i have been 'imprisoned' for some 13 years now (i never ever even thought about 'Hawai'i'; having been to the Carribean (Jamaica , mostly) many times, i felt pretty sure That would be where i ended-up, if i were ever to 'escape to the tropics'; but as i'm sure you know, "the best laid plans...", & now i can't imagine leaving Lana'i (do you live here, or were just vacationing? if you Do live on Maui, and haven't been to Lana'i yet, i not only recommend checking it out (i call it 'the last place that is still Hawai'i'); and i'd be more than happy to show you & your 'big fish' around...
so having been here 13 yrs (amazing!), my third chapbook is going to be "Struggling through Paradise", a product of my years here, but also (i've come to realize) a fine metaphor for Anybody, living Anywhere...
i appreciated your 'talk story', am sincere about visiting, and wish you all the Peace, Love & aloha you deserve
christo,,,
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