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Cindy Angyal's avatar

Loved your expansive expression of the afterlife!

Indeed…I can just see your father striding along—freed from pain.

Beautifully written! You pictured your father just as I remembered him.

Furthermore, your poem almost made me smell the sweet wafting from Nancy’s kitchen!

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thank you, dear one!

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Kim Nelson's avatar

Nancy's afterlife sounds to me, like a model for this earthly one, filled with love, joy, generosity and contentment. You parse it perfectly.

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Foundations for the next life laid in this one! We're thinking similar thoughts, Kim. Thanks for reading.

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Barbara Webb's avatar

Nancy Newmeyer. How we miss her.

The poem about your Dad is beautiful, just beautiful.

Auntie B

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thank you, dear one. ❤️

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Sandy S's avatar

I am so touched by what you have put into words. Thank you for sharing it. I will be looking forward to reading your previous and future posts.

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

So grateful to have you reading and commenting, Sandy!

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Brian Funke's avatar

Beautiful writing, thank you for sharing these 🌟

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thank you for reading and commenting, Brian.

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Rose Scarff's avatar

Thanks for sharing these poems. Since I take a more Buddhist than a Christian view of the afterlife I have never thought much about it other than that it is a place full of light. Your poems made me think that it could also be a place where we are more ourselves without a lot of the extranious hinderances we all have in this world. It made me kindly think of my father building something or planting a garden and of my mother reading aloud to a brood of children. Thank you!

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thank you so much, Rose! I share your hope for the Light, but/and I also have so much love for individuality and details, it's hard not to picture the New Life that way. Peace and joy to your parents and mine.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Beautiful words, beautiful imagination :)

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thank you, Sydney. ❤️

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Donna McArthur's avatar

Beautiful🩷

Amazing 🩷

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thank you, Donna. ❤️

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Jason McBride's avatar

These are both beautiful. The poem about your father was especially moving to me.

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thanks so much, Jason. There was a lot about my dad that baffled me, but it was always clear where he felt happiest and most himself. Easy to wish him a return to that, after seeing him lose so much.

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shari young's avatar

I know your church community ♥️

Maybe the poem’s subject is Nancy N? Lovely evocation of her 🕊️

Maybe the second poem was a springboard from Paradise to Paradise?

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

You do indeed know that community! Good intuitions as usual. Thank you for reading, Shari.

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Weston Parker's avatar

That was so heartwarming, I'm sitting here in Colorado all choked up by your love of these people. thanks

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26thAvenuePoet (Elizabeth)'s avatar

Thanks so much, Weston. High praise from a man who writes so beautifully about his own loves.

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