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Lor's avatar

In all the small moments you have opened your heart to notice a miracle, the rainbow will always present itself in the form of my father’s smile.

“You're the end of the rainbow, my pot of gold, you're daddy's little girl to have and hold…”

My dad sang that song to me as I sat on his lap as a small child. When it came his time to pass, I stood to eulogize him .

The last line; I know just where to find you, at the end of the rainbow.

Memories and miracles.

Thank you.

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ars poetica's avatar

thank you for bearing yourself so freely. i hope you know that you will always, always have that rainbow. <3

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Daniel Henderson's avatar

This was beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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ars poetica's avatar

thank you for being here <3

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Rococo G's avatar

You do not realise how much you bring to me, and to I think so many others (though I do not want to assume, but it looks as though that is the case). Thank you. I'll be watching for rainbows, and small miracles, now.

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ars poetica's avatar

your words are honey. thank you, little voice. <3

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Conny Borgelioen's avatar

Your writing is absolutely beautiful! Reading this has a powerful therapeutic and reorienting effect.

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ars poetica's avatar

thank you for being alive to the words, little voice. <3

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Amal Kiswani's avatar

A warm tea, Ars Poetica, and the morning sunlight dripping through my window. What a lovely miracle I experienced today~

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ars poetica's avatar

how precious. i feel so very lucky that we got to have tea together, even from so far away <3

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Liané's avatar

Thank you for your words. 💚🌈 They are my favourite small miracle on this app, always.

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ars poetica's avatar

and your presence is one of mine. thank you <3

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Jt Smith's avatar

Rainbows are far from ordinary events. I have been smitten by them as a visual art. I even captured a double rainbow on my parent's outside patio with an iPhone. There is something inherently beautiful yet enigmatic about the process involved in Nature's alchemy. Of course, the pot of gold being a wee bit Irish is the token at the bend of gravity's rainbow. It is mythic as well as an object of spiritual awareness. Thanks little voices for opening the soul to these precious miracles. Poetry seems to examine how life's daily rituals are indeed human and endless.

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ars poetica's avatar

thank you for always having your eyes open to those miracles... and to these words. <3

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

Wonderful-Thank You!

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ars poetica's avatar

and thank you for being here, little voice. <3

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Finn DeNeuf's avatar

wow, thank you

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ars poetica's avatar

and thank you. i hope you found a miracle today <3

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Julie Hickman's avatar

This seems the closest to truth.

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ars poetica's avatar

you create your own <3

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Laura Smith's avatar

"so i walk into this small world and take my allocated seat. i do not expect miracles. but i do have a list where, if i happen to find one, i might put it." this is such a miracle. always love your words. thank you. thank you <3

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ars poetica's avatar

thank you for being here <3

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Amelia Murray's avatar

Thank you for this miracle. 💛

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ars poetica's avatar

and thank you for being so awake to it<3

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The Sea in Me    (Síodhna)'s avatar

Beautiful post. Wrote about them from another angle today too.

https://theseainme.substack.com/p/art-is-born-to-lovers

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Luis A. Estable's avatar

There are many things in nature which have no practical purpose; this is what you trying to say in all of this; for instance, a rose, or a cascade. But still we wonder when we look or gaze at either. Yes, the rainbow, and you make some very good points. But not quite. To a believer or Christian the rainbow is not a meaningless thing. It is a remainder of God that He is with the world; that He will never again will destroy the world as when he did with the flood in the time of Noah. But that is a different story and it does not take from what you are trying to say in all of this.

By the way, I invite you to read my poetry. You might find some poems interesting and thus worthy of your time.

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