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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Self-Portrait as Tuning Fork
I am what continues.
—Joi Sharp
There is, perhaps you’ve felt it,
a moment when the day falls away
and your name falls away and
everything you thought you knew
falls away and for a moment
you know yourself only
as whatever it is
that continues—
your whole body abuzz
with the eternity of it—
and you quiver
as if struck by the great hand
of what is true,
becoming pure tone,
more vibration than flesh,
a human-shaped resonator
tuned to the frequency
of life itself,
and though later you might try
to dissect what happened,
in that moment you’re too abloom
to wonder how or why,
you simply are
this ecstatic unfolding
knowing the self as I am,
so alive and so infinite
you tremble like a song.
Copyright 2024 Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher and storyteller. Her many books and recordings include All the Honey (Samara Press, 2023). She lives with her husband and daughter in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River.
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Gorgeous poem, Riosemerry!! ❤ xoxoxo, Ali
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Thanks, Ali! ❤️❤️❤️
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“and you quiver
as if struck by the great hand
of what is true”
Love, love, love❤️
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I love these moments… you describe them so beautifully here! Thank you.
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Thank you, Mindy, thank you ❤️
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In the Venn diagram, where the “eternal” overlaps with the “natural”, there’s Rosemerry with a poem.
I don’t know how she finds so many ways to the joy of just being, but… works for me!
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Well-said, Holiday. Thank you!
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Oh Miz Mathis, I love you so
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Yes Rosemerry’s poem and herself are often my spirit guides!!!
Joanne S
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❤️❤️🥀 Thank you, Joanne 🌙
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This is just beautiful, to even perceive such a moment, let alone express it. This is a poet of whose consciousness is finely tuned indeed!
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Not “of whose,” just “whose!”
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Thank you, Mary 🙂 I love the attempting to express the ineffable, always failing, but joy in the failing!
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Yes, Rosemerry occasionally fails. She fails to recognize she’s nailing it rather than failing it. Big hugs to her always.
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powerful because minimal few words It’s what’s NOT said
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Yes, the poetry lives between the words
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Thank you, Becky
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Gorgeous & true! So great to meet this new poet!
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Yes, Rosemerry is one of my faves.
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And Vox Populi and YOU are some of my faves!!!
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Thank you ❤️❤️
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Yes. And a gorgeous poem.
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Thank you, Rosemary ❤️❤️
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Yes, ecstatic and alive and true and ardent! I love this poem!
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As do I. Rosemerry is my spirit guide.
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oooph!! thank you for the sweet and strange fluttery feeling i just got in my chest!
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Thank you, dear poet ❤️❤️❤️
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Purely ecstatic!
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Isn’t Rosemerry wonderful?
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very fond of what she does!
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yes! indeed–the ecstasy!
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