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Poem of the Month: August 2007

The Thread HSomething is very gently, invisibly, silently, pulling at me--a thread or net of threads finer than cobweb and as elastic. I haven't tried the strength of it. No barbed hook pierced and tore me. Was it not long ago this thread began to draw me? Or way back? Was I born with its knot about my neck, a bridle? Not fear but a stirring of wonder makes me catch my breath when I feel the tug of it when I thought it had loosened itself and gone. --Denise Levertov Journal prompts: What is the thread that tugs at you? Review the seeming inevitabilities of your life. Which feel like nooses? Which feel like bridles? Which feel like nets? Reflect on the lines, "I haven't tried / the strength of it." Is there a big vision in you that is waiting to be birthed?

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