{"id":47858,"date":"2011-06-28T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47858\/forgiveness-voo-pick-apart-poetry-barbara-k-silver-lining-a-rhodi\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:00:05","slug":"forgiveness-voo-pick-apart-poetry-barbara-k-silver-lining-a-rhodi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/47858\/forgiveness-voo-pick-apart-poetry-barbara-k-silver-lining-a-rhodi\/","title":{"rendered":"“FORGIVENESS” with Voo @Pick-Apart Poetry with Barbara K., Silver Lining, and A-Rhodi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greetings and welcome everyone for one more Pick-apart Poetry Challenge! First of all I’d like to say a welcome to “Silver Lining” (a.k.a. Cherie) as one of our new co-hosts for Pick-Apart. Please send her a “Hello” and “Thank you” for becoming part of the Pick-apart Team with Barbara K.!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

“Silver Lining” (Cherie)
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For this month’s challenge we bring you a very special Guest Poet. She’s some one who I’ve been trying for months to get here and I am so pleased to finally have the opportunity!
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I’ve been reading her writing for several years now and hope you find her as inspirational as I do. Please send a warm welcome to our featured guest poet straight from the “House of Voo”…. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Voo!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Please take a few moments to view Voo’s Profile<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

And send her a friend request if you are not already a friend of hers. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copy her url. and click open to read more of Voo’s poetry<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Here are some words about Voo from Voo:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

“I am a poet from birth and a prophet to the Earth. I am spirit, soul and body and all woman. I am a gentle heart and an intelligent mind. I see far more than the average person. I am a loner and a stander in shadows. I have never fit in anywhere. I love poetry, and music and books and deep people. I love beautiful things and languages and places. I am fueled by passion and felled by rejection. I am a woman of dreams and a lover of all things romantic and wonderful. I am VOO.” -The House of Voo
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About Me: <\/font>
\nI was born and raised on a big farm in Tennessee. I started writing when I was about seven and my first poem was called JESUS IS THERE. Which is strange because I had no idea who Jesus was and which began my lifelong search for who He was and ultimately led me to a one-on-one encounter with Him and it changed my life. I wrote my first novel when I was 9 or 10 because I had run out of reading materials that summer and had read just about everything in the small town library so I decided to write my own book. It was called MYSTERY OF THE HAUNTED CAVE and the manuscript later got burned up when our family home burned to the ground.
\nI write because it pours out of my soul and I cannot stop it nor would I want to. I write because I am inspired to by many things. I never know what will inspire me, people, places, things, images, sounds……Writing is always an adventure for me because I never know what I will write or how it’s going to end. I cannot write on demand and am not good on collabs so I don’t participate in a lot of your forums for that reason. I have to be inspired to write by something beyond my control. It is a gift and I barely take credit for it but I am grateful for the gift that has added so much to my life, even to the point, of saving my life and my sanity, you could say.
\n I love writing for other people and about them, especially things I could not possibly know by natural means. That’s why I know my writing is a gift from God. It brings me joy to know that others find themselves in my poetry. It’s what I live for.
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And now for our Challenge…Here are the Rules!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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And below is our featured poem for our Challenge!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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“Forgiveness”<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Lying in the darkness of my own undoing,<\/span>
\n Memories like shards of glass pierce me<\/span>
\n Like a thousand knives\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>
\n Cut me open, make me bleed tears,<\/span>
\n Taunt me, tease me, torment me<\/span>
\n With their awful, beautiful, unending voices<\/span>
\n Until I beg for forgetfulness.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Such is the penance we all must pay<\/span>
\n For living,<\/span>
\n For building and destroying,<\/span>
\n For taking and giving and loving<\/span>
\n Another soul outside ourselves.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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It is the price tag we never notice<\/span>
\n Until the garment is soiled,<\/span>
\n Or the item is stolen,<\/span>
\n Or the article is crushed<\/span>
\n Beneath the feet of an angry mob:<\/span>
\n Those damned emotions that do more damage<\/span>
\n Than the guns of war.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Unforgiveness is a cage<\/span>
\n That holds prisoner the man that can\u2019t forgive<\/span>
\n Hurt is the key that locks the door,<\/span>
\n Offense is the carpenter that builds the walls,<\/span>
\n And anger is the cold hard steel of the bars.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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What would it take to free me from this?
\n Captivity has been my terror and my comfort
\n How do I let go of the hand of sorrow,
\n Drop these chains and walk into the sun?<\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Beyond the darkness, clarity shouts with a tiny voice:<\/span>
\n Loneliness is not my lover, solitude is not my friend<\/span>
\n No one can set me free, not even God<\/span>
\n I have to let go, I have to let go\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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The key is in my hands now where it has always been<\/span>
\n And I feel it turning, hear it creaking from long disuse<\/span>
\n The cage door opens and I walk out free<\/span><\/span>
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As I forgive.<\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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By Voo<\/span>
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We hope you’ve enjoyed your time with us! We look forward<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

To seeing you again next month.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We thank you for sharing your poetry and comments with us.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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To share a heart with us too!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Send us one!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Blessings and all our regards,<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Cherie, Barbara K., and A-Rhodi
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Greetings and welcome everyone for one more Pick-apart Poetry Challenge! First of all I’d like to say a welcome to “Silver Lining” (a.k.a. Cherie) as one of our new co-hosts for Pick-Apart. Please send her a “Hello” and “Thank you” for becoming part of the Pick-apart Team with Barbara K.! “Silver Lining” (Cherie) \u00a0 ~~~ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}