VJs Weekly Challenge – Remember
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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” Haruki Murakami
Re-Membered
Death is so singular,
so rude without compare,
beyond any place and
not just a little ambiguity
as it challenges the
primacy of our built reality,
an unwelcome intrusion into
the facia of polite circles
where everyone merely exists
and avoids the revelatory
nature of an invitation to
reframe life in the veins of
a narrative, re-membering,
putting back together a
semblance of what was once
so meaningful, a body of
moments that live on
in the telling.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Yes❤️
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So very stunning
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Thank you for that.
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so well said and expreesed and the break of word is so well penned
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Thank you so much – yes I often wonder if people remember that the word is in two parts and carries a very important meaning.
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It’s what is left near the end.
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Yes
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The Murakami poem is a profound setting of the stage for your profound poem.
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Thank you Lisa, I do love Murakami very much and if I remember – so do you. I really appreciate your thoughts on this.
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Absolutely.
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Love it too, Paul! A very difficult theme, but you penned it wonderful to the paper. Thank you! Michael
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This one has been brewing, I think we forget the meaning of the word. Thank you Michael.
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Another wow, Paul. “Re-membering” a life – such a concept and exactly what we do after the trauma of death.
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It’s almost akin to stitching the person back together through narrative. Many thanks for sharing your thoughts VJ.
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I like it. Death is rude indeed. very.
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Yes, always presuming, interrupting, ghastly character with no manners. Thank you.
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This one really hits home, as I mourn the deaths of my father, mother, and my little brother through poetry re-membering them.
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O that is a tough road, but thankfully it can be written and poked, thank you so much for sharing such an important experience Liz.
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Great quote by Murakami.
And yes one is blessed if someone remembers.
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Yes, it is indeed such a blessing, thank you Rupali.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Charles
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Many thanks VJ
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Yes – a very deep and meaningful poem
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Thank you for that, appreciate your thoughts
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
THERE IS LIFE IN THIS POEM!
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