dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
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“Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.” Sharon Weil
Gifted
I want to laugh
as infectious giggles fill the air
a family,
its youngest gifted a balloon,
so enthralled, excited
running carefree,
trusting, or was it forgetting
with a letting go
just to see it floating,
the child was sad and crying,
but I really understood that balloon,
and I held it in my heart
gifted by its freedom.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Oh to be free!
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Yes, and to float, sigh.
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A nice spirited reflection! ❤
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Thank you 🙂
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Lovely imagery! 😀
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Thank you for the lovely compliment. 🙂
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Such conflicting feelings prompted by that balloon . . . I’m with the child tonight.
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O, I hope that moves.
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I hope so, too.
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🙂
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Interesting Paul.
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Many thanks VJ
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You are welcome.
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Reblogged this on From 1 Blogger 2 Another.
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Thank you Douglas.
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I admire the contrasting of emotions between the child and the balloon. The gift of freedom is precious.
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I loved the idea of relating child, baloon and freedom. Quite interesting!
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Many thanks for that Mistella. Yes, they collide.
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An amazing poem holding so many emotions and evolving so many feelings
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Yes, i really felt this one from an age ago.
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lovely. I love that floating freedom of that balloon.
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Thank you, yes, it is a wondrous feeling, this one came directly through feelings.
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I do really love this, and in the end a child should not be told to be a jailer.
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I like your thought, so agree, and if only we were all taught to let go as children. We imprison self and others. Thank you Bjorn.
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Love how you ended it. Very nice. 🙂
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Yes, to leave our attachments and surrender to life.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Many thanks Charles 🙂
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Happy to share!!
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🙂
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