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(Haiku Artist)'s avatar

Didi, I love this comparison. Sighthounds to other dogs—and poets to other people. ❤️ Perhaps poets simply have a different kind of radar, picking up details that the rest of us walk past without noticing. And sometimes one poet's way of seeing wakes something in another. Thank you, Didi.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Dear Chota Bhai—That radar is just what makes sighthounds so different. I have shared life with 2 Irish wolfhounds, 1 Scottish deerhound, 2 salukis, one whippet, and now our sweet lurcher Jazz, who is 50% greyhound. 12 % saluki, 7% Scottish deerhound, and 25% Airedale terrier. (I had her DNA done) Yes, "sometimes one poet’s way of seeing wakes something in another." You and I perhaps?

(Haiku Artist)'s avatar

Yes, Didi. I think we have woken something in each other. ❤️

Your way of seeing makes me notice things differently, and perhaps my little observations sometimes send something back your way.

Maybe that is one of the nicest things about finding another poet—not simply being understood, but being made to notice again.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Yes, YES! Dear Choti Bhai, when you opened your tender and good heart to me in your comments—those two, besides your observations, awaken me. By the way, my friends Moudi and I—we call each other Habibi (beloved friend) so I may forget and sometimes call you that! Please take no offense at the Arabic.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

And dear Choti Bhai, that photo is of me, brought to my knees. My sweet husband of 38 years took it yesterday for this post. He’s Dutch, by the way—born and bred—and yet he has edited for me in English. Stunning, I think.

(Haiku Artist)'s avatar

Oh, Didi. ❤️ Then I shall gladly accept Habibi whenever it slips out. No offense at all—only affection.

And yes, that photograph is beautiful. There is something very moving about knowing your husband took it, after 38 years together. Perhaps that is another kind of seeing—someone who has known you for so long still looking at you closely enough to make a photograph like that.

And now I understand the title a little differently. You really did bring us to our knees. 😊❤️

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

And thee to mine.

Oh younger brother, is there a shorter way to say Choti Bhai? Didi rolls so wonderfully off the tongue.

(Haiku Artist)'s avatar

Didi, please see today’s essay. I’m dedicating the window in the image to you. Enjoy the world through it. ❤️

David Kirkby's avatar

This is so lovely, Amrita...

Poetry is its own kind of sight, of things most people disregard, and of all the strange associations of existence.

Best Wishes - Dave :)

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Thank you, Dave, for responding and reading. Because of the physical structural pain I've been in, my poems are not what they used to be. I'm coming back... it's just slower than than I had hoped.

Daniel Skach-Mills's avatar

Thank you for being "deep radar" for so many if us!

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Oh friend, and thee for me!! Tomorrow a second steroid spinal epidural, this time is L5/S1. After that, when I'm not as this short poem expresses, could the three of us zoom again? I miss you!

taking pain medication exactly as prescribed

I am a drunk poet

too high still

the ache, throbbing

scours me

call it tanked, pickled, blitzed

no longer intermittent

my familiar is ever-present

all that’s left: greet it

again, again again

Daniel Skach-Mills's avatar

Yes, that would be nice! Let me know a time that works for you.

felice rhiannon's avatar

radar sends out invisible sound waves and measures what comes back when they strike an object. poets might send invisble waves into the world/universe/heartscape and respond to what returns to our sensitive selves.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Yes, I feel this is so true!

My low back, dear Felice , is shockingly painful. Epidural on Wednesday morning. Struck down twice in six weeks—phenomenal happening. Oh life!

Yesterday Jane's avatar

What a delightful series of comments this post has provoked. I feel like a lucky bystander--in just the right place as a parade walks by.

Janice Falls's avatar

hearts more attuned, deep radar for awe - this is how it is with poets :)