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Callie R. Feyen's avatar

Lent indeed lumbers. What a great word.

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Lynn Wielenga's avatar

You & Van Gogh inspire me!

https://madhatterpoetry.com/2025/04/02/fruit-and-nuts/

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Megan Willome's avatar

ooh I love it! And "fragile flowers fall like snow"--I've seen that, not with almond blossoms but cottonwood blossoms. Love how you brought Van Gogh's painting to a whole new level.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

I give you the blue

sky, cloudless and clear. I give

you knobby branches

festooned with white flowers. I

give serenity.

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Megan Willome's avatar

Oh! Those kinds of blue and white are bet kinds of singing.

Thanks so much for your poem, Melanie.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Blue and white together always sing in my soul.

Thank you again for the inspiration.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Also about your poem... my little sister spent some time at Breckenridge Hospital in Austin when she was about six months old. She had a mysterious high fever. So the baby with fever too high has a strange personal resonance. My youngest brother was born there, also, after it had been renamed St David's.

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Megan Willome's avatar

Oh wow, Melanie. Yes, such overlap! This was back in 1972, so treatment was not as sophisticated as it is now.

I was born and raised in Austin--went to Eanes ISD for K-12, back when there were only three schools in the entire district.

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