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WilM's avatar

So beautiful. Thank you for this big contented sigh as you transported me with your words into the forest with my friends the trees. 💚

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Thank you so much for reading, and commenting 🙏 To have transported you amongst your tree-friends is an honour, may you dwell there as long as you wish 🍃

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Juliet Fay's avatar

Hello - I saw your note of the bluebells on the Malverns and came over to look at your posts. This is beautiful. Your writing stirs something in me that I am savouring. I grew up in Worcester, went sledging on the Malvern Hills. My Mum retired to Ledbury and used to love walking on the Malverns. She goes for flatter walks now. I emigrated to the US last July and I am full of nostalgia just now for the bluebells in the places I love in England and Wales. Thank you for sharing some of that beauty and for your soul touching writing.

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Hello Juliet! Thank you so much for reading, and taking the time to comment and share those memories. It's wonderful to hear from someone who so intimately knows this area. I've lived here for around 26 years, and long ago stopped saying 'I live in Malvern but I'm from Sheffield'. Malvern is home, now. I love it here. Sledging on the hills must have been exhilarating!! I'm so glad that you enjoyed this piece of writing, it's made my day to hear from you 🙏

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Juliet Fay's avatar

What a gracious response. Thank you! I find conversations on social media a bit awkward but am looking to develop a new relationship with that! I thought to myself, 'if I am touched by someone's writing, perhaps it would be nice to say so!" It makes me happy inside that I made your day ... and your photo made my heart do a little dance ... I wonder how far the ripples from this little exchange will go?!?

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Oh, I empathise re conversations on social media! I'm rather shy myself, and too often refrain from commenting on the posts of people with whom I'm not familiar on here. Curiously, I'm more reticent online than in person. It's a strange new world we're navigating. I sometimes wonder if, online, we mistake people for being more confident and extroverted than ourselves? I suspect many people feel that same awkwardness. I'm very glad you did say hello 😊

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Juliet Fay's avatar

Oh thanks for stopping by Lizzie and commenting especially if it’s uncomfortable. That’s a useful perspective that others are maybe less confident than they appear. Sometimes I think … all these words … disappearing into the ether!! Probably no need to worry. 🥰

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Michela Griffith's avatar

Reading this feels a little like walking out into the current, and letting the water carry you away. In a good sense! I’m behind with my reading, but wanted to say how much I enjoyed your flow of words Lizzie. I hope you are still writing, and reaching for the light.

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Thank you for reading and commenting, Michela 🙏 I'm very happy that this made you feel the current; I think that's how I aspire to write, these days. I'm still writing, a little, when I can get into that flow. I've been occupied with setting up my tarot and hand reading work and completing my coaching qualification - and hence I am also behind on my reading on here and have several of your recent posts to catch up on! It's good to hear from you 😊

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Suburbia's avatar

I so enjoyed reading that, thank you. Beautiful photos too.

I can see British Camp from here and The Malvern Hills. I’m waving 👋

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Thank you so much 🙏 Ohhh where do you live, Worcester or Ledbury side - or are you visiting? Waving back 👋

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Suburbia's avatar

And you 😊

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Suburbia's avatar

👋 just outside of Tewkesbury 👋 hello 😊

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Just down the road! Lovely to meet you on here 😊

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Felicity Keefe's avatar

Beautiful words and images! 🌿🌿

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Thank you so much, Felicity 🙏💚

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Teri (Prof. T)'s avatar

Lizzie, my names have "tree" in them...pick me a card Pythia!

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Amanda Jackson's avatar

I loved reading this post. It transported me to the quiet comfort of trees and the raw joy I feel in my belly when alone in nature. Saying that, what your writing does and always has done is make me feel less alone and more connected. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful piece.

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Amanda, you know how much creating that connection means to me, and I am so grateful to you for always inspiring and supporting me 🙏

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Teàrlach's avatar

That’s really rather nice. My favourite places are empty of people. Trees of all sorts I love to be canopied by. Also mountains….. islands of few people. Deserted beaches. Wild nature. I feel the call of the caw, from my bed. I am drawn to those birds.

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Thank you 🙏 I'm much the same in my preferences for solitary places, away from sensory overload... And crows are magnetic, aren't they? They seem such ancient beings, somehow!!

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Teàrlach's avatar

Crows and Ravens, Lizzie.

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Martyn's avatar

Read your piece twice this morning and ventured into your cold misty woodland this afternoon. Well worth the discomfort to have your words, sounds and feelings with me. So good being local and able to follow in your footsteps. Thank you as ever.

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Oh Martyn, I'm smiling knowing that you were with those very same trees today! I bet it was bitingly cold up there today! I still wish I could've got out with my camera, though. Thank you as always for reading and commenting.

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wildflower's avatar

Beautiful! I really enjoyed reading. 🤍

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Thank you. That means a lot ♥️

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wildflower's avatar

My pleasure!! 🤍

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Life as Women Laughing's avatar

Wow! I need to read this again slowly. There's so much here that is so beautifully expressed🤎

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Oh thank you!! I'm so pleased the words resonate with you ♥️

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Jamie Millard's avatar

Oh Lizzie! This is enchanting. Beautiful and sad. The spaces between. The yearning vapour and mud. Inside the caws get louder. Spring is coming. Keep writing. We need you. 🙏❤️

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Hi Jamie! Thank you so much, I really appreciate your comment 🙏 We can all feel spring's imminence in the northern hemisphere, can't we? I hadn't been craving it until February arrived, but now it's time to reach for the light...

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Jamie Millard's avatar

Born Again

Reaching for the light

You break free

Any barriers

Defenceless

Against the strength of the essence

that drives all desire

Wings unfolding

as they meet the invitation of life

Kissing the freedom of air

Your purpose

already known

As you open your eyes

Fighting for breath

Startled by the cries

of your own

Arrival

An old one I wrote that seems to fit. Reaching for the light…. 🙏❤️

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Have you ever, or will you maybe, publish your poetry in book form, Jamie?

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Jamie Millard's avatar

Thanks Lizzie. One already born and another soon to come. Written for me to set free. What doesn’t need to die inside of me. It’s a fool’s journey. Thanks for asking. 🙏❤️

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Beautiful, Jamie - as, indeed, is all your poetry. Thank you for sharing...

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Claire Amritavani Brown's avatar

Oh so beautiful. Keep writing little mole

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Hello, Claire ♥️ Thank you so much for your lovely, gentle comment. I will 🙏

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Lizzie Swift's avatar

Anna, thank you 🙏 I deeply appreciate you reading and responding. And I am so pleased you can feel the trees, too 💚

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