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Marcia Abboud's avatar

I smiled at 'boredom is a rug of comfort'. That feels familiar. I love the rhythm of this one... beautiful.

Debdutta Pal's avatar

Thank you! I don’t usually write poetry in prose style, feels like an oxymoron in my head, lol, so I’m very glad you found some rhythm. 🖤

Marcia Abboud's avatar

🤭🤍🖤

Gael MacLean's avatar

Ir is amazing how easy it is to forget to breathe when we need it most. Please force autumn just a bit sooner. Lovely words. Lovely pictures they create.

Debdutta Pal's avatar

My lungs never cooperate. 😆

I’ll try my best with Autumn, can’t wait for summer to over.

Thank you! Glad the pictures/visuals came across. 🖤

Jenny Blue's avatar

This is fascinating. Your writing is exquisite.

Debdutta Pal's avatar

Thank you! I usually edit out/temper the tangents or leaps of un-logic as I like to call them, but here I didn’t. So your reaction means a lot to me. 🖤

Devo/Murphy Carpenter's avatar

I wrap fear in foil, and leave it in the fridge, knowing it will be there tomorrow.

Just wow

Debdutta Pal's avatar

Thank you! 🖤

This line was the starting point, but somehow it became the ending.

Karin C's avatar

I suppose I need to stop wrapping fear in foil. Maybe then it will rot quicker and I can toss it out.

Thought-provoking and visual, as is your jam. Loved this.

Debdutta Pal's avatar

Excellent idea, I’ll try leaving it out on the counter. 😁

Thank you! Very happy to know it came across that way. 🥰

Robert Gowty's avatar

“Is there a word…” why is autocorrect so bad?

Debdutta Pal's avatar

Autocorrect only works to turn fuck into duck. 😆

Robert Gowty's avatar

I know, right? Totally ducked up.

Robert Gowty's avatar

Any cheap tickets to Tasmania? “stretch this moment to adorn my odds” perfect really, so I’m going to avail myself of this. Here I was, enjoying your poem as always, and then, there it is: Mia Goth. Is that a real person? Off to Safari to check. It is! Why didn’t I get a name that cool? Is she related to that other guy I didn’t know? Anyway, by the time I got back to Substack, the app had “rebooted” and I’d lost my place, with poem poem having vanished. So then I had to search for you just to find it again. Then I started a comment, then went back to check the quote above only to find my partially completed comment had evaporated. Is the word onematapaic (no, I’m not going to go and search for the correct spelling) where a poem instantly manifests itself as your life? So about the double poem up there. I’m too scared to edit it.

Debdutta Pal's avatar

This comment is better than my poem. 🖤

And Mia Goth really won the name and the acting talent lottery.

Robert Gowty's avatar

I’ll take a closer look. Any recommended entry point on her work?

Debdutta Pal's avatar

Pearl (2022) was the first one I watched, so that remains the best in my biased opinion. 😁

Nevena Pascaleva's avatar

Free… and brave.❤️

Debdutta Pal's avatar

One hopes. 🖤