Yard Sale of Thoughts

28 responses to “We’ve Learned to Settle”

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   whimsygizmo

   Loving the spill and trill of those last lines, especially.

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      K.Hartless

      Thank you kindly, Whimsygizmo. I thought your winged escapade great fun this evening.

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   johnlmalone

   gorgeous miniature with a terrific ending; I can hear them now outside my window 🙂

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      K.Hartless

      I do hope they are in tune. Nobody can possibly stand an out-of-tune aria. 😉

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         johnlmalone

         hahahah; now that is another poem: a very funny one 🙂

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         K.Hartless

         Yes, well. That’s your thing, my friend. I am only funny in polite conversation. My verse refuses to take a beat. 😉

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   msjadeli

   It does such a good job of positioning itself on center stage.

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      K.Hartless

      It’s a mic drop moment around here, for sure. 😂 Temps fell faster than the leaves.

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   Arcadia (@MissArcadia)

   Nicely done quadrille.

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      K.Hartless

      Thank you.

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   Tricia Sankey

   You put me there with the woodpeckers, enjoyed the stirring image and verses! 😍

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      K.Hartless

      Thank you, Tricia. I heard two on a tree means a long winter awaits. We shall see.

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         Tricia Sankey

         We are getting snow already tonight in the Kansas City metro, so i believe it!

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         K.Hartless

         You said the S*** word. The really bad one. Oh man, it’s headed our way…

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         Tricia Sankey

         My husband wants more though, not enough to build this guy! ☃️

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   rothpoetry

   Woodpeckers can be a good lesson for all of us!

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      K.Hartless

      I agree, Dwight. Settling really never sounded so good. Life and death putting it all in perspective. Thank you for this.

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   kim881

   We don’t get many poems about woodpeckers – I love it, especially the shift from birds to the alliterative ‘winter waits in the wings’ and the dramatic ending. I’ve never seen two together, let alone on a tree!

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   Mister Bump UK

   There is no sound more pleasant than that of woodpeckers.

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      K.Hartless

      Always sounds like chuckling to me 🤣

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   Gillena Cox

   Ah to share and be at peace. Nice one K
   Thanks for dropping by to read mine.

   Much💛love

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    Tom

    Some beautiful imagery here – paints such a charming vivid scene for the changing seasons. 🙂 ❤

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       K.Hartless

       Thank you, Tom. 💜 It’s a bit of folk wisdom to watch for two peckers having at the same tree, and I saw that this week, as well the crickets heading in. Could be we have deep snows ahead. I know two littles with sleds that hope so.

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    Jane Dougherty

    I love the sounds in this, and the sentiments, sharing and letting be.

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       K.Hartless

       Thank you, Jane. I heard lots of folk wisdom growing up predicting hard winters, including the woodpeckers and the hard corn husks, and the abundance of crickets trying to enter the home. There’s a bit of truth in each of these images, and I tried to capture that.

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          Jane Dougherty

          Yes, there’s usually something behind every snippet of folk wisdom.

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    Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

    Winter… how it is just coming… love the way you used the woodpeckers.

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       K.Hartless

       Thank you, Björn. It’s an old saying that two peckers on one tree means a long winter is ahead. Guess that’s the only reason to share.

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