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Elizabeth Romero: Morning
The shower hisses.
A soft roar and splatter.
My daughter bathes.
The house is warm and fragrant
With bacon, bread and coffee.
My friend Peter and I
Argued about love one time
Before he died.
I said it was basic and cited the experiment with molecules moving in water toward each other.
He said that only proved affinity.
But in this dark morning
I gaze across the parking lot
At the next building
Up into someone’s apartment.
I cannot see this person
Only as moving shape
But their light is on too.
Other days I‘ve seen a hand
Washing the window
Propinquity, Peter would say.
I say love.
Copyright 2025 Elizabeth Romero
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A marvelous poem. I say love too!
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Ah, yes!
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Those moments when you feel the love of the world…
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Yes
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Oh! Those final lines! I say love. This poem. Thank you for this poem.
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Lovely closure to the poem.
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I had to look up the word “propinquity”. It means closeness to somebody or something.
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I did too! Poems are great teachers in new words and ideas, spiritual guides in more than way. “I say love” – over and over again.
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And what I say is I love this poem—its whole idea of love. You are so right on Elizabeth. Friday Love! Perfect. Somebody at VP runs a good show.
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Thanks, Sean. The magic is in the poems. I’m just the innkeeper.
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Thanks for posting this, Michael. I love Betsy’s work.
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Isn’t she great?
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She IS great and I miss her presence on FB.
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About five years ago, Betsy sent me her full manuscript of poems and gave me permission to publish them in VP. Then she disappeared. I have no idea what’s happened to her.
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I sent you what I know about what’s happened in a FB DM.
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Hi Jan, Facebook blocked me almost two years ago because of my posts about Gaza. Please send me an email: simmsahp(at)gmail.com
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They are letting me post things they would not have let me post before. If you want to ( big if) you might try again. I often post VP on Facebook.
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Good point, Batbara. I also often post VP on FB without an issue from the gatekeeper bot.
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I love this! I love the idea of seeing love in a hand washing a window. I love the idea that love can be everywhere and anywhere, if we pay attention to it, if we open ourselves to receive it. Thank you, Elizabeth.
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Oh yes.
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