Finding Koi in the Tunnel of Love
Your hand reaches to hold mine,
pulls back as they touch.
Nerves frayed by discomfort,
the pain that sears your wrist
subsides as you turn it
to stroke my arm, reassurance
that no median will separate us.
https://www.osmosis.org/answers/median-nerve
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Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Always with a great pleasure, Ken! Thank you a well for good thoughts. xx Michael
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Gives thoughts for a lot of interpretations. But now, after i had read the tags. It’s clear a horrible disease. I hope you are not suffering on this, Ken. Best wishes, Michael
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Thank you, Michael. This would be my wife. Apparently the condition is not to a level that requires surgery, but that makes it no less uncomfortable for her.
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Best wishes, Ken! xx Michael
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beautiful 💙😊powerful love
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Thank you.
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Wonderful snd tender Ken.
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Thank you, Rob.
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Great title….and you have a mastery over short verse, finding that moment. Really liked the piece you read at the open mic, hope to read it sometime, it felt really well-worked with philosophy.
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🙂 Thank you, Ain.
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I thought it read as a powerful metaphysical verse, but now see is true. Life keeps throwing all these kind of things…distressing..all the best Ken.
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We certainly can use balance. Especially in these times.
I’ve sent a message to you via Gmail.
Be safe.
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This is incredibly powerful, Ken! I am so sorry to learn that your wife is suffering from it .. sending love and prayers. Thank you so much for joining in the LIVE session 💝💝
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And thank you, Sanaa.
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A sensitive moment beautifully described, Ken. It was great to hear you read too 🙂
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Thank you. Twice!
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We are such finely-tuned instruments. I hope there is some treatment that will provide relief. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe. Fingers crossed. When possible. 😉
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Such an elegant simplicity in the way you express love here, Ken!
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Thank you, Ingrid. And, as simple as we like to think love is, it is so complicated.
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Both simple and complicated at the same time!
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Very nice! it has been a few years since I rode through the tunnel of love! :>)
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Decades, for me! Thanks, Dwight.
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I’m sorry about your wife suffering. It sounds very painful, but this is such a tender love poem.
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Thank you, Merril.
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The title made me think of a pond with koi only visible when they almost touch the surface from below.
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Those koi do seem to have a sense of mystery.
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Even in pain, we are connected. Lovely, Ken!
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🙂 Thank you, Susi. ❤
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I can so relate to this piece, Ken. I have been experiencing skin sensitivity for many years due to Fibromyalgia, so much so that it makes the way my husband is accustomed to embracing me painful and I wince. Of course, this upsets him. Touch: powerful/wordless/necessary/longed for/love…
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Yes. For all the negative connotations it can have these days, touch still remains an essential connection when there is mutual understanding.
Thank you, D.
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