Lovingly, or: All we have in common

I’ve re-blogged this post where David at The Skeptic’s Kaddish wrote a beautiful accompaniment to a poem of mine. I’m so honoured to have been included in his Poetry Partners series! All the partnership poems are wonderful; they’re well worth a read-through.

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Poetry Partners #86

A poem by Anne Morrigan of ‘Anne A p a r t’

I fell in love Precisely
because you asked me not to
said I was foolish
one of thousands
a fly in your soup
Common.
but you had to concede
that you revealed
yourself to me
so what I could not control
I reveled in
thinking, one day
I’ll tell you
what all we have in
Common.

Asevenlingby ben Alexander of ‘The Skeptic’s Kaddish’

EPIGRAPH:

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don’t know how much in common that they have.

Ernest J. Gaines (1933 – 2019)

One day, I’ll tell you what all we have in common when you return forsaken; defeated; perhaps not of your own volition. One day, I’ll tell you what…

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  1. 13rrance

    Both your poem and your friend response are beautiful. Poetry is really of a thousand faces, a thousand tongues. Thank you in sharing 😀

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    1. anne

      Thank you Miriam ☺️💙

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