At dVerse Linda is hosting Prosery with an invitation to take a line form one of Mary Oliver’s poems – ‘Spring Azures’, “Sometimes the great bones of my life feel so heavy.” and use it in a piece of prose.
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” A.A. Milne
The Tides That So Easily Turn And Pull
I launched the kayak, noting everything in my periphery and set forth forth with a flourish, gliding across the glassy, still, estuary. this was morning, but not my life. I launched equally as carefully under my mother’s watchful eye, but the estuary of life was never glassy or still in my experience. However, I had to start somewhere, and my own dictum is, don’t dismiss the wisdom of the young who are simply shifting gears through the tide of life which is so fickle. We carry our own weights, the things we love, the things that haunt, the things we enjoy, and that which brings pain, yes, even that. Sometimes the great bones of my life feel so heavy and it is more than enough to bear when I wish I could steady the tides that so easily turn and pull us against ourselves.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Wonderful write, Paul
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Thank you very much VJ, enjoyed your response.
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You’re welcome Paul.
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Beautiful prose Paul.
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Thank you very much Linda 🙂
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Enjoyed , 🌱eco
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Many thanks 🙂
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This is absolutely framable! True, we carry our own weights, and our attitude impacts the push and pull of the tides.
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Thank you so much Beverly, so agree too.
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Paul your post is overflowing with good advice.
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Thank you so much Jim, very much appreciated.
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Yes … we carry our own weights. A beautiful write, inspiring.
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Thank you very much Helen, appreciate your thoughts.
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Love this! 💝 There is deep inner strength in this gorgeously worded prose, Paul 🙂
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Thank you so much for this Sanaa
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You’re welcome! 🙂
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
SOMEBODY REALLY GOT THEIR FEET—AND THEN SOME–WITH THIS ONE! 😀
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Many thanks for sharing Jonathan. 🙂
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MANY THANKS FOR WRITING AND POSTING!
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🙂 🙂
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Your prose piece uses the prompt line very effectively!
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Thank you Liz for raising that, it took a bit of thought 🙂 and it is wonderful to have that noticed.
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You’re welcome, Paul.
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🙂
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To go in the flow of one’s own life by learning to better control the meaning one gives to it.
Learn to listen to the world, to the people around us and especially to the youngest ones.
All this is a full-time job that will last a lifetime.
Thank you Vincent
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Many thanks John, yes, absolutely so.
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Paul,
This is simply lovely.
Thank you,
David
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Thank you Ben, your kind words are much appreciated.
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True, life is not a glassy, still estuary, but it’s the ripples and waves in that broad river that shape our lives, and you convey that so well here.
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And you know tides very well, thank you Ken, I enjoyed your thoughtful response.
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Beautifully written, with wonderfully apt metaphors.
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Thank you so much for the absolutely delightful response Dora.
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Wonderful take on the prompt. Loved, “we carry our own weights.” That is such truth. I guess we just have to figure out which weights we should carry and which we should put down.
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Yes, I seem to hang on to the wrong ones at times, but yes, discernment.
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Great ending. It sums up the struggle. From under another’s watchful eye onto the battle within.
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Yes, that inner tussle, many thanks Astrid, appreciate your response.
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Beautifully deep
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Glad it had that affect
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