echo-2 - Hello Poetry

you know when the ground is dry and cracked and hardened, and the fields crunch underneath you and grass splinters and cows group under shade in the country towns you drive through doing 50kms on the main road, stopping for a pie and paying with cash? yeah that ground. anyway, you know when the rain's due and the clouds bundle like sheets in the washing basket and that smell of dirt and sky and the thick drops fall on your neck, and you squint your face up and wait for the next one to hit you? yeah that rain. anyway, you know how the water pools and the ground can't drink it fast enough and it's drought signs to flood signs in sixty minutes and the crops fail and the men cry, all because the ground wasn't ready for what it needed to arrive so fast? yeah that irony. anyway, I feel that in my heart sometimes.

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Feb 6, 2021

Feb 6, 2021 at 4:15 AM UTC

you know

you know when the ground is dry and cracked and hardened, and the fields crunch underneath you and grass splinters and cows group under shade in the country towns you drive through doing 50kms on the main road, stopping for a pie and paying with cash? yeah that ground. anyway, you know when the rain's due and the clouds bundle like sheets in the washing basket and that smell of dirt and sky and the thick drops fall on your neck, and you squint your face up and wait for the next one to hit you? yeah that rain. anyway, you know how the water pools and the ground can't drink it fast enough and it's drought signs to flood signs in sixty minutes and the crops fail and the men cry, all because the ground wasn't ready for what it needed to arrive so fast? yeah that irony. anyway, I feel that in my heart sometimes.

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my friend, when I'm with you I remember who I am. what is friendship if not finding ourselves together, day after unsimple day, untangling it all.

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Feb 6, 2021

Feb 6, 2021 at 3:47 AM UTC

ourselves

my friend, when I'm with you I remember who I am. what is friendship if not finding ourselves together, day after unsimple day, untangling it all.

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so many thoughts to gather - ideas and threads and things they've said and heard and honed so many thoughts to gather - the fear and dread of things unsaid unlearned, unknown so many thoughts to gather - from faith and friends shall I pretend they're all my own?

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Feb 6, 2021

Feb 6, 2021 at 3:41 AM UTC

gathering

so many thoughts to gather - ideas and threads and things they've said and heard and honed so many thoughts to gather - the fear and dread of things unsaid unlearned, unknown so many thoughts to gather - from faith and friends shall I pretend they're all my own?

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heart to mind these conversations hardest kind head to heart lost in translation speaking blind soul to God these conversations yours and mine

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Mar 9, 2018

Mar 9, 2018 at 10:12 PM UTC

yours and mine