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Mr. Joseph, There are few writers that offer such moments of pure communion. May the power of your small rebellions live large in our minds and hearts.

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As always, your words come just when I need them the most. Sometimes just opening my eyes in the morning to this world's reality is unbearable. But it is a gift. Thank you for the reminder.

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“more like a river” indeed. So beautiful. Sometimes I think that even our language is so embedded with racism that there are no words to talk about way out. By Design. This is daunting on a good day.

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Your words break the code and bring me joy and hope that with faith we can ascend

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🥹🤎✊🏾🥹🤎✊🏾

Thank you. That’s all I can say right now… thank you.

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Two excellent poems, Frederick. Particularly, for me, the first: "Today, the Light."

"I wake to the hum of a world

That has tried to unmake me,

The weight of shadows

Still pressed into the sheets.

Outside, the city churns,

A machine of iron and smoke, gears grinding

Against the soft bodies of dreams."

Wow! Magificent.......

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Love the concept of resilience as a river. A shield can be broken but water forges it's path no matter what sometimes as a trickle sometimes as a raging flood. It reminds of how I learned to like poetry again after going to an online meditation retreat on the Dharma & Compassion through Poetry where all the poems read 20+ were water element related and many about resiliency in their own ways. I see those same elements and concepts in so many of your poems for me.

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Love these four lines:

Despite the night, despite the long road of scars,

I have arrived at another day.

And isn't that a miracle--to stand again in the light,

to whisper my name into the vast, indifferent sky.

Thanks

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Just bought your latest book after reading these two poems. Thank you for the beauty and hope!

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Love the poem “Mornin’” (the other poem didn’t load). Also love your new book, gifted to me by my loving spouse. Thank you for sharing your enormous gifts with us.

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