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Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thanks for sharing @Jessie Laverton! ♥️

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Thanks for sharing @Britt H. aka Mika ♥️

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Thank you for sharing, dear @Vianne Armour ♥️♥️♥️

G and T: The Journey's avatar

Gosh, you are so very clever with your words. I can hear them in my mind 🌹

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Wow. Thank you! 😊

Aaliya's avatar

Wow this is a masterpiece of emotion and atmosphere 🖤

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Thank you so much for spending a little time here under the moonlight, dear Aaliya ❤️

Petra's avatar

The restraint makes it so appealing. Even light, air, and silence become participants rather than just background. <3

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you!

In a hyperfast and over stimulating environment, sometimes it’s not to slow down, with attention rather than action♥️

Brandi Lynn's avatar

There is such a beautiful tension in the way you describe those small, quiet gestures that feel more intimate than a kiss, where even time and breath seem to pause just to make room for the gravity of the moment ✨

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Thank you Brandi. I was hoping that it would come as intimate, where even no touch can feel more than a kiss. Really pleased that came through for you and the slowing of the experience too. ♥️

From Tender Ground's avatar

Ahh to actually have this experience… I think I’m flushed 😳🧡

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

oooohhh. that’s just the right feeling and if only the moon would arrive like this ♥️

Mike Ketch Poetry's avatar

♥️♥️♥️

Adrião Pereira da Cunha's avatar

This poem feels like stepping into a moment where everything slows down and even the air seems to hold its breath. There’s a softness in the way the scene unfolds, almost like the light itself is trying not to startle anything. I felt the intimacy in those tiny gestures — the open hand, the breath catching, the hesitation before touch. It captures that quiet electricity that happens before anything actually happens. The poem moves like someone approaching something sacred, inch by inch. And there’s a warmth in how presence becomes its own language here. The pauses feel real, like the kind that make your chest tighten without knowing why. The way light and darkness trade places at the end feels like an exhale. It’s a moment that doesn’t need explanation, just attention. And it leaves you with that lingering sense of something tender that almost became something more.

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Thank you Adrião.

There’s a really powerful word you expressed there in your reading - attention. That’s where the magic happens between two. Not in the description or acts, but how someone holds your attention.

The little gestures you’ve seen and felt are such a small but important part of the piece, so I’m really pleased they came through for you.

A lovely reading. Thanks!

AsukaHotaru's avatar

The pulse on the wrist opening the hand~ That one motion has such a shy little power to it, like the body gave permission before the mouth could catch up~

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

oooh - that was my hidden hinge dear Asuka, and your wrist turned to meet me ♥️

Thank you!

Rakesh I Unfiltered Hour's avatar

The sheets remember.

Columns hold their breath.

A cat guards an absence.

Light arrives.

Too late.

Not you Mark.

you arrive

before us.

❤️❤️❤️

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Such a great extension and lines Rakesh!

Thank you!

blake wager's avatar

The kind of poetry we all feel but few can capture. Thank you for sharing this

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Thank you Blake! That’s a perfect reading and I love how you caught that.

Linda Blatnik's avatar

i am always in the moment,

feeling the lines, breath, fingers and a sigh.

Beautiful poem.

Mark Crutchfield's avatar

Wow, I love how you’ve stepped inside the poem Linda, as that is just how I was hoping it would land — in the body first, and before the mind.

Thank you! ♥️