Yutka

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I have 335 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 477396 times and 138 of my stories have been cherry picked.
22 of my 330 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 22 votes

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I am the stillness

I am, not in the way fire roars, but in the hush between storms. I am the breath the forest holds before the wind remembers how to move. They rush,...
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If Jesus had an iPhone

If Jesus had an iPhone, It’d be old, scuffed along the edges, cracked where it hit the floor while he knelt to help someone crying in the grocery...
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Cats

I Many hide in half forgotten gardens Where they sit and watch the clouds sail by. Off and on they move a whisker, try catching this or that, a...
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Perfect Synchronicity

He thought back to the hour at dusk when a bird’s call sounded outside him and deep within him in perfect synchronicity, so that it did not break off...
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How to avoid the seemingly anavoidable

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In a world spun tight with worries, where shadows hint "impossible," we search for ways to slip through the cracks, to dance around the edges of fate...

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22 of my comments have received 22 Great Feedback votes

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You not only are a brilliant

Posted on Tue, 28 Nov 2023

You not only are a brilliant poet but an artist too. Are you a painter? Reading your minimalist poem I immediately see a canvas, a beautiful sea landscape   With the rising moon, last seagulls and a far pink coast touched by a sinking sun........

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Posted in at dusk today

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I love this well written poem

Posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2024

I love this well written poem and the great image of a single bee (An insect which I adore!)  as one writer within a "swarm" of writers appreciating each others creations. Will the honey be flowing? 

Hope you are well, my friend,I can cal...

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Posted in Bee Muse

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Thanks Jenny! Are you

Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024

Thanks Jenny! Are you familiar with EMOTO, a man who thoroughly tested water and researched prompted water crystals' ability to change with emotions ....fascinating!

Yutka 

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Posted in The power of water

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I was walking with you

Posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2023

I was walking with you through long years of Memory Lane where magic converts all those rays of light and shadows into a beautiful tapestry loved and appreciated throughout the years. What would we do without those memories!

from Yutka

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Posted in For The Love Of Village Life

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Stuck? Living in today is the

Posted on Sun, 27 Jan 2013

Stuck? Living in today is the only thing beneficial to us....still like your poem, it speaks some truths...

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Posted in Changes

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thank you for this truly

Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2020

thank you for this truly outstanding poem, with its many different piuctures to illuminate thought, I very  much enjoyed it

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Posted in Deus Ex Machina

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a ray of hope for our

Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2020

a ray of hope for our deprived earth, dandelions, lions in the plantlife, full of vigour, perseverance and with "lion's teeth", therefore the name, a reference to the tooth-like serrations on their leaves...they will still be there after we are...

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Posted in remembering dandelions (again)

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The story becomes touchingly

Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2019

The story becomes touchingly alive in your poem. I lived with you, her, through the various stages and felt deep emotion reading about pain, sorrow and lastly forgiveness and coming to terms with life.

love to you from Yutka

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Posted in The mask melting at 98

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As I love Paris I enjoyed every bit of your brilliantly told sto

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019

As I love Paris I enjoyed every bit of your brilliantly told story, you brought Paris alive in detailed and vivid descriptions and enticed with the emotional dimensions of a relationship. I especially loved the  ending which pointed towards life’...

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Posted in La Femme d'argent

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Thank you, you just got what

Posted on Mon, 12 Nov 2018

Thank you, you just got what I meant....not many will do...I just bought vol 2 of her letters published this year, 1025 pages...and read them all.

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Posted in Weeping Willow

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