~Willie Geist
Greetings, all! I left yesterday to go to Vanderbilt Family Weekend (yay!), so I am running an old poem of mine.
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!
13 comments:
This is definitely one I would like to memorize and recite each day! Thank you for gracing us with this poem today, Tabatha!
Lovely. Enjoy your weekend!
Wise words for this recent time, Tabatha. Hope you have a wonderful parents' weekend!
Such a powerful little poem, Tabatha. I love it!!! Enjoy your weekend!
Beautiful, and so true.
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.
Tabatha, this is so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this important reminder!
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.
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)
Oh, do I love this.....I think I want to riff on this for next week. Stay tuned.
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.
The lines of your poem may have shrunk, but your message grew. Lovely, Tabatha! Hope your weekend at Vanderbilt was wonderful. =)
Could I love this any more?
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