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This first poem I called ‘Rain Chef’ as I was listening to the sweet summer rain one night, thinking how the splattering sounds reminded me of fried food cooking. I started considering how I was snug in bed and couldn’t feel the rain, yet still it was there. The window between us.

Then how it relates to people. You can be so close physically, yet so far away emotionally. The opposite is also true isn’t it? Feeling emotionally very close yet physically far away from someone.

This next poem is concerned with relationships and hopes. The way love takes flight as a bird on a wing. The same wind that buoys you, can change to whip you.

Love is also a message in a bottle.

We cast it out there with good intention hoping it will land on our paradise isle. But sometimes the other person doesn’t see our true message inside, just the pretty bottle, and what’s more, it doesn’t always make the land.

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Beautiful poems as usual Julie

I’ve never had the creative art of writing poetry. You are very talented.

I interpreted the first poem myself as a metaphor for the unpredictability and reward/disappointment we all face in life seen through the lens of the weather and in the kitchen

In the second, I interpreted it as the idea of reminiscing about chasing your dreams and the sadness of never yet quite realising those hopes yet.

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That’s why I deliberately didn’t introduce the poems but instead gave the information in a comment because part of the beauty of poetry is the way we all read something slightly different into it or often our own experiences/situation.

Thanks for reading them Nat. It’s only really in the last couple of years I’ve started putting them “out there”.

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Absolutely. Couldn’t agree more. English literature was favourite subject at school. I love analysing creative work as every person reading it will have a slighting different take on the meaning and purpose of the work, largely due to their own perception of the world around them. There are no right or wrong answers! Keep writing, your poems are stunning. x

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August 1, 2022
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Hope it didn’t bring up any difficult feelings for you. I appreciate your reflections. Wherever our bottles end up, remember the beauty of seaglass is made in the smash and sanding of the years xx

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No. I’ve read a couple of hers though. Remember “Light on Snow”.

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