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Pamela Leavey's avatar

Love, love, love this Joyce!

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Pamela. Much appreciated 💙🙏💫

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

I csnt tell you how much i kove this poem Joyce! Ive always been in love with the whimsical . This one is so fanciful, you must have had fun writing it. Thank you!

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you very much, Charlotte. I wrote this with Tolkien’s work in mind. But I did have fun 💙🙏💫🧚‍♀️

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Kathleen's avatar

I immediately saw the Tolkien landscape and the rhythm of both the language and the dance

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Joyce's avatar

Oh thank you, Kathleen. Yes, the landscape as he pictured it was on my mind when I wrote that. I think it was after reading The Silmarillion. 💙🙏💫

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Heidi Zawelevsky's avatar

This is lovely and uplifting as always, Joyce. Thank you.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Heidi 💙🙏💫

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Richbee's avatar

Joyce you have entered the mushroom ring . Been taught the fairy faith’s song. Treasure the beat that lifts maiden’s high to touch the sky. Few can follow this dance and in the morning slip away in the blink of an eye.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you for this poetic comment, Richard. Always a joy to see the way you put things into words 💙🙏💫

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Veronika Bond's avatar

Love it! 🧡 🙏

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Veronika 💙💫🧚‍♀️

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Veronika Bond's avatar

You are most welcome. It reminded me of an elven poem I wrote a couple of years ago... I might post it some time soon 🧚🏽 🙏

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Joyce's avatar

Oh please do post it 💙🙏💫🧚‍♀️

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Veronika Bond's avatar

I'll let you know 😊

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Joyce's avatar

Please do!

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Wendy Elizabeth Williams's avatar

I love elves…

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Wendy. Elves do have a lovely image 💙🙏💫🧚‍♀️

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Deborah T. Hewitt's avatar

I see the faeries of the forest dancing ✨✨✨

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Deborah… they’ll keep dancing 💙🙏💫🧚‍♀️

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A.C. Cargill, All-Human Author's avatar

Enchanting!

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, AC !

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Harold Ember's avatar

I loved this. It reminded me of Child of Faerie Child of Earth, which I love.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you so much, Harold 💙🙏💫🧚‍♀️

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Harold Ember's avatar

You're welcome, Joyce. By any chance, have you read that?

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Joyce's avatar

No, actually I haven’t. Or rather, I cannot remember I did.

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Harold Ember's avatar

It's good, and the pictures are neat

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Elliot Murray's avatar

The poetry of your soul is a beauty to behold, Joyce, Bravo 🙏💜🙏👏👏👏

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you so much, Elliot 💙🙏💫🌷🧚‍♀️

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

Loved it! Free in the forest!

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Jayshree. It was fun writing it 💙💫🧚‍♀️

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Elliot Murray's avatar

Thank You 🙏💜🙏

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Donn Harper Jr.'s avatar

Very nice.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank You!

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Ayesha Falak's avatar

That's a beautiful poem! The imagery is lovely, particularly the harebells chiming to mark the beginning and end of the Elven dance. It creates a sense of magic and ritual. Thank you for sharing your work!

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Ayesha 💙🙏💫

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Michael Newberry's avatar

Joyce, it seems so exotic and foreign, like Druids and elves dancing at dawn. I am reminded that you live somewhere in the British isles? I live in the mountains in Southern California, there are rumors that locals dance naked around campfires in the deep forest. If one of my models is to be believed. : )

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Joyce's avatar

No, Michael, I live across the channel, mainland Europe, and I can assure you that we’ve got nothing like that here.

Inspiration came (long ago) from Tolkien’s works.

Hmmm, perhaps that model’s tale is to be taken with a pinch of salt.

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Michael Newberry's avatar

: ) I was being mysterious, I have seen the pics. Its a real thing.

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Joyce's avatar

Oh my goodness…well, each to their own.

There’s no forest near where I live, so no dancing at all ;o)

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Richbee's avatar

Topanga mountains Michael. Was true. But nudist colony closed years ago. Course Big Bear may be different story.

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Michael Newberry's avatar

I didn’t know that about Topanga but I knew some people that lived there. Here, in Idyllwild, I don’t think they have anything official like a nudist camp.

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Richbee's avatar

Try a golf course middle of hot night when sprinklers come on. Tee off.

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Richard's avatar

Just delightful Joyce….

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Richard 🙂

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Richbee's avatar

Perspective to have pixies dust, sleepy seeds over your eyes is first a must, then the

dreams come to you to write poems lightly as the dew.

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Joyce's avatar

💙💙💙

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Richbee's avatar

🏹🍄

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Joyce's avatar

🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️

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