disability gave the gift of poetry

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here is an authors statement that speaks to the origin of my poetry from disability - which is why I find it relevant here.  l thought I would share this and check in with everyone to see how you all feel - I want to  be sensitive to the off topic posts issue.  let me know.

Physical limitations led Curran  to poetry's doorstep. One day he and a friend were reading his journal entries about the nature preserve farm he called home on Orcas Island. The friend asked him to email an entry to her. But advanced stages of MS made typing a laborious, left-handed, hunt-and-peck exercise.  Curran started shortening his entries into stanzas. Transforming his journal entries in this way exposed the poetry embedded in his writing. These first journal excerpted poems were published as the Heartspeak collection in 2010. Subsequently, his poems have spilled ink onto the pages of Guideposts, Appreciative Living ezine, Orcas Issues and The Islands' Sounder.  Curran  continues to craft poems about nature, both inner and outer, in Seattle.

[blueskye101]

However you came to poetry's doorstep, we are glad you did.

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thank you kind friend

just posted - pink dawn
a word picture of a pnw
morning at this time of year
perhaps you can claim this
as your pnw experience too

[skywheeler]

Was just thinking about this... I think it might be cool to think of this in contrast to how so often we condense our thoughts for other reasons. Tweets, status updates, the 'wtf' and 'lmao' that serve the purpose of efficiency, but also seem to lessen the depth of communication. You say more with few words - not less. And in doing so perhaps you make us all think about how difficult it is to capture and relate a complex experience with carefully chosen and constructed words. Like supply and demand - each word of your's is worth like a few hundred of mine.

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skywheeler
poetic choice
worth well over 200 words

you summon the entire
azure stain of our world
to your name
the blue planet

in just the first three letters
and then you place all on wheels
setting fancy to flight

your moniker drapes you in fundamental forces
sky
conjures a most elemental natural force
wheel
conjures a most elemental force of human innovation

add to this powerful associations
the myth of luke from the future
and legions of fellow wheelers
who stand by you in the present

you elevate and ground us 
and spark imagination 
and so much more

pure poetry
word count - one