The Echo is Neither Sound nor Hope
empty trees
a darkened
window
the void
between chairs
unchanged
as if you’d never spoken
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This first appeared in April 2015.
O at the Edges
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
O at the Edges 
a truth very rare understand.
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Yes, thank you. By the way, your comment was in my spam folder. I don’t know why it was there, but thought you should know.
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Beautiful one.
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Thank you.
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What a haunting photograph to go with!
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Thank you, Lori. The photos are from morguefile.com.
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So powerful in its spareness, Robert. The pair of images just adds to the hollow feeling one gets from your words.
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Thank you, Nadia. When I saw those two images on morguefile.com, I was compelled to use them.
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Brilliant effect! Love it.
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Thanks very much.
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Wow! There are volumes and volumes of stories in these few words and the way they are arranged on the page. Eerie, too.
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I’ve tried not to waste any words in this one. 🙂
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Beautiful as always 😊
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Thank you!
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So simple and perfect, One of those great titles too, the kind that linger like an echo.
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Thanks, Angela. The title is quite an improvement over the origiinal, which was “Untitled.” 🙂
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Like the lonely man looking for something.
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Or escaping, perhaps.
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Simple but it has an edge.
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Thank you.
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Wonderful–says so much with brevity.
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What you leave out will sometimes say as much or more than what you include.
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True. Must be the same with readers…
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We can only hope so.
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So beautiful & melancholy
And so much left to the imagination
Love it
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Thank you, Lamarr. The imagination is a powerful tool.
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Yes it is 😊
Thank you for sharing
And you are welcome
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Powerful, as always Robert. So few words, yet each so carefully chosen…I’m loving your poetry.
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You are so kind, Marian. Thank you.
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Wow, these words leave an echo in my thoughts. The picture is such a perfect pairing. I feel like I could write pages on what took you a few short lines. Powerful words.
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Let’s hope they don’t bounce around too much… 🙂 And thank you!
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Another new favourite. The overwhelming abundance of the minimal.
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Thanks, Craig. Less often is more!
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