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Mckay Chidester's avatar

Thank you Maya. This is exactly what I needed to read and wonder about this morning ✨

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Maya C. Popa's avatar

I’m so glad!!!

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OddWritings's avatar

i've always loved blake's phrase "reptiles of the mind." i wonder if wallace stevens was alluding to it with his "milky monsters of the mind" ?

"wonder wednesday"... i'll have to look more into this :^)

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Arnie Sabatelli's avatar

Thanks for this. It brings to mind Elizabeth Bishop’s “In the Waiting Room,” which in the context of your post could well chart a young poet’s awakening into the wonder of existence.

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Maya C. Popa's avatar

Absolutely; it’s a poem full of complicated psychic wonder. 🙏🏻✨

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Jean-Christophe's avatar

Yes! and this links so well with the earlier piece you wrote Maya, about opening up to the subconscious. I love what you say about the relationship between certainty and uncertainty. To stay poised in that equilibrium is to be free from the fearful mind, I remember how someone said the difference between fear and excitement is but a deep breath...

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Hannah Levy's avatar

I always have to remind myself that reading is a non-negotiable part of being a writer. It feels like play, like luxury, like not-work, not-producing. Thank you for this reminder of how essential it is.

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Kate Koosney's avatar

Thank-you Maya ✨. It brings me so much peace to know that others, especially artists, are seeing new ways of bringing the earth and its creatures (us included) back into harmony.

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Victory Palace's avatar

Maya thanks so much for this *wonder-filled* article about how poetry engages and enchants the reader. It’s a form of magic between reader and writer that should not be underestimated and should be aspired to by the poet.

This has been my aspiration when I write poetry: to attempt to magically engage with the reader, not just other poets, but ANY reader. To hopefully create an experience in them the way poetry enchanted me decades ago and made me think of its possibilities.

I think it was Ferlinghetti who said “I am looking for a rebirth of wonder...”

It’s my hope to help facilitate that somehow.

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