finding words

[Sattie R]

Now I must have ripe peaches.

[Mark Crutchfield]

Hehe! Me too! 🍑

[Sunshine]

This poem is absolutely delicious. I could feel the heat and sweetness of summer in every line. It’s so sensuous and alive.

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thanks, Sunsine!

[Be Budding]

This is beautiful, Mark

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thank you, Be ♥️

[EJOD]

Yummy!

[Mark Crutchfield]

Hehe. Thanks!

[Christopher Van Name]

The fruits that love can bear!

[Mark Crutchfield]

Yes!

[Aaliya]

So beautifully articulated

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thank you, dear @Aaliya !

[Vlad Tverdohleb]

Finding words is often less about inventing something new and more about discovering the shape of what was already there, waiting beneath perception.

Language can feel like retrieval.

Not because it creates the truth, but because it gives structure to what was previously only felt.

And sometimes the right words do not just describe experience.

They reorganize it.

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thank you, Vlad, and I love those last two lines. That is what happens inside us.

[Vlad Tverdohleb]

Exactly.

That’s why naming can be such a profound act.

Not because words solve the thing, but because once something becomes speakable, it often becomes metabolizable.

Before language, it can remain diffuse, implicit, almost haunting.

After language, it enters relationship with consciousness differently.

And that alone can begin to change its structure.

[Off Ramp to Brave Spaces]

Oh this is luscious

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thanks 🍑

[Fragments and the Dark]

This felt minimalistic in the best possible way! 🥰 Loved it! 🖤

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thanks!

[Sara da Encarnação]

Excellent.... but now I am craving peaches...

[Mark Crutchfield]

Haha! Perfect then! Thanks! ♥️

[Sara da Encarnação]

Was the first thing I went to buy this morning…

[Mark Crutchfield]

hehe. Maybe I should have started a peachy delivery service with the poem too :)

[Sara da Encarnação]

hahaha!!!

[Gary L Taylor]

Wonderfully done, Mark, very juicy.

[Mark Crutchfield]

Haha! Thanks Gary!

[Dorie Snow/雪多丽]

Peaches lovely fruit

[Mark Crutchfield]

And more :)

Thanks, Dorie! ♥️

[Sapphra | Poetry]

What a delightfully juicy poem, Mark. Loved it so much.

[Mark Crutchfield]

thank you Sapphra!

[Leonorra Dainler]

This was fairly juicy and sticky !! Love it

[Mark Crutchfield]

Hehe. Thanks Leonorra! 🍑 🍑 🍑

[Dean M]

Marvellous, as usual. The Art.

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thanks, Dean!

[Good Witch Poetries]

#gifted 🔥🔥

[Mark Crutchfield]

Thank you ♥️

[Good Witch Poetries]

Umm no thank you!! 🤓

[Mark Crutchfield]

🤭