Friday, September 23, 2016

A little something

Nashville, man. That's the place to be.
~Willie Geist

Greetings, all! I left yesterday to go to Vanderbilt Family Weekend (yay!), so I am running an old poem of mine.

photo by Bindaas Madhavi

Open-Hearted
by Tabatha Yeatts

To listen is to open your heart.
To listen, open your heart.
Listen, open your heart.
Listen, heart.
Open.

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You can find the Poetry Friday round-up at Reading to the Core. Thanks, Catherine!

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13 comments:

  1. Whispers from the RidgeSeptember 23, 2016 at 10:04 AM

    This is definitely one I would like to memorize and recite each day! Thank you for gracing us with this poem today, Tabatha!

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  2. jamaSeptember 23, 2016 at 10:21 AM

    Lovely. Enjoy your weekend!

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  3. Linda BSeptember 23, 2016 at 12:37 PM

    Wise words for this recent time, Tabatha. Hope you have a wonderful parents' weekend!

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  4. Michelle Heidenrich BarnesSeptember 23, 2016 at 1:13 PM

    Such a powerful little poem, Tabatha. I love it!!! Enjoy your weekend!

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  5. Jane @ www.raincitylibrarian.caSeptember 23, 2016 at 2:23 PM

    Beautiful, and so true.

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  6. Violet N.September 23, 2016 at 11:06 PM

    Oh my, having just left Irene's blog and a poem called "Moth" that ended:

    "Let us open and open,
    without knowing how."

    it is quite the jolt to come here and read your lines:

    "Listen, open your heart.
    Listen, heart.
    Open."

    I am musing about what I need to open after this little bit of Poetry Friday serendipity.

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  7. CatherineSeptember 24, 2016 at 7:57 PM

    Tabatha, this is so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this important reminder!

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2016 at 7:23 AM

    Oops. Confession. I came and read your blog this morning - but then got distracted by your previous post and the vimeo link reinventing normal, then had to share the link with my son (and twitter) and have just (now night) realised that I didn't finish my comment.

    Your Open-Hearted is so simple. Yet perfect. It is definitely worth sharing - again... and again, down the track. Gorgeous picture to accompany it, too.

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  9. Robyn Hood BlackSeptember 25, 2016 at 9:42 AM

    So glad you shared again, Tabatha, because I missed it on the first round. Such a potent poem, and message much needed. Thank you. And have a great rest of the weekend at Vandy! :0)

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  10. Linda MitchellSeptember 25, 2016 at 7:54 PM

    Oh, do I love this.....I think I want to riff on this for next week. Stay tuned.

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  11. Brenda at FriendlyFairyTalesSeptember 26, 2016 at 11:09 AM

    Hope you had a great family weekend. I like the dialogue with your heart. Sometimes I feel like my conversations with my daughter go that way.

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  12. Bridget MageeSeptember 26, 2016 at 6:13 PM

    The lines of your poem may have shrunk, but your message grew. Lovely, Tabatha! Hope your weekend at Vanderbilt was wonderful. =)

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  13. Karen Edmisten September 28, 2016 at 9:20 PM

    Could I love this any more?

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