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Luna's avatar

This reads like a beautiful song. 🌸🌸

Rea de Miranda's avatar

Thank you, Luna. It was inspired by a song. <3

Octarine's avatar

I appreciate how you show whole spectrum of being a human. It comes with fear and pain and agony sometimes and like you said, there's nothing we can do but surrender to it.

Rea de Miranda's avatar

I love your perspective of my poem, Octarine! Thank you. <3

Virginia Curtis's avatar

I know the song. You did it justice. Love ,Virg

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Thank you, Virg. ❤️

Parker McCoy's avatar

Hearts will break, for sure. Hopefully hearts will heal as well. Beautiful poem, Rea.

Rea de Miranda's avatar

It surely does, Parker! Thank you. <3

Esther Stanway-Williams's avatar

There’s nothing we could do….

A beautiful reflection…I love the wisdom we see in the clouds

Rea de Miranda's avatar

Nature is wise beyond our understanding. Esther. <3

Dora's avatar

Rea, your words thunder with both pain and beauty. The storm you describe feels like the way grief breaks open the sky inside us — unstoppable, unsoftened, and yet profoundly human. Thank you for putting the unspeakable into such vivid images.❤️

Rea de Miranda's avatar

Thank you for feeling my emotions, Dora. <3

Stephanie M. Vargo's avatar

Beautiful and powerful. It gave me chills, ominous, foreboding. The focus is intense.

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Thank you for reacting to my words, Stephanie! <3

Stephanie Marie's avatar

Beautiful. This reminds me that no matter what, somewhere, someone’s world is shattering, and that none of us are immune to hardship. We will all leave this earth having known pain and grief, and within that truth lies something deeply human that connects us all.

Rea de Miranda's avatar

Pain and love connects us, Stephanie Marie. Thank you for commenting. <3

Brenda - A Voice that Wonders's avatar

What truth. Your poem is just heartfelt. Sooo baie mooi.🍂🍁

Rea de Miranda's avatar

Dankie, Brenda! <3 <3

Mark Farley’s wandering’s's avatar

A powerful piece of writing Rea. I read the poem completely differently.

The thunderstorm being described to me was a “mental implosion” being experienced by the individual.

Overwhelming and chaotic thoughts, emotions, and anxiety that leaves you feeling completely and utterly mentally and physically broken.

Which in my experience mirrors the destructive power of a real thunderstorm

Rea de Miranda's avatar

It makes me happy when someone sees it from their perspective. Thank you, Mark!

Mark Farley’s wandering’s's avatar

Similarly, I guess, to how we can view other forms of art!

Louise Claude's avatar

Beautiful.

Rea de Miranda's avatar

Thank you, Louise! <3