Photo: at the back of Tamma Park, Merredin. Sun shining through the rain clouds.
“The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!” Mehemet Murat Ildan
A Simple Hope
I saw her lips move
but no sound evolved
her eyes stone cold
in her heavy void,
that inner world
of the paper house
waiting to be torched
in a celebration of survival,
a rising beyond the
everyday ordeals,
nightmares,
but a lock is always an invitation,
so I ventured to speak a simple hope,
that we might just find a summer
in the midst of our winter.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
parallax 
The last thing left in Pandora’s box.
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Indeed.
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Excellent
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Thank you Cheryl
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Beautiful photo
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Thank you
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The job you do so well. I should know.😚
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Ah, that is so kind, thank Ana.
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Kind? Me, kind? I don’t THINK so… Appropriately appreciative, maybe. Hey — say that five times fast 🤣
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Lol, you brought a smile 🙂
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Oh, good. ‘Bout time somebody does it for you back
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You always care and that is a wonderful thing.
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😌
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I hope she accepted the offer of summer.
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Yes she did. Such an important space to be, especially right now.
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This is beautiful and particularly poignant at this time. x
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Thank you so much, yes, we need hope.
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Reading this made me misty eyed. I know Tamma Park well and was to visit Merredin next week. I feel like I’ve been wrenched from the embrace of this big State.
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We lived opposite for a few years, this was a revisit, but when I was there it was a regular event. Thank you Dawn, and yes, feeling the same.
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That’s a good thing to hope for.
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Thank you, we sure need some right now.
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That we do.
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🙂
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your last 4 lines were excellent, a little bit of escapism in these trying times.
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Yes a that’s true, thank you Gina.
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you are welcome Paul
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” summer in the midst of our winter” – sounds ideal.
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I look for it in those pockets of each day, I think the WP community does it for me, people like yourself, thank you VJ.
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Welcome, Paul
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The quote from Ildan is excellent. I really felt that. Thank you for sharing!
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find a summer in the midst of our winter — how I love it.
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Hoping 🙂 Thank you Amy.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Charles – hope you’re safely indoors.
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😁✨👍
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Utterly beautiful, Paul.
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Thank you so much Rupali.
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Beautiful
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Thank you.
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