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  Posted by RIVER Tue Sep 8, 2009 9:03pm PDT

  Welcome Sassa...

  wishing you a pleasant journey..and look forward to reading your posts and learning from you.

  Tell us about you, Shine is all eyes HA

  Hop around and get your fill, many posts here with all different backgrounds and opinions..from all over the world..you are going to love it!

  peace

  river

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  Posted by PoetWithCancer Wed Sep 9, 2009 3:47am PDT

  Dear Sassa,

  In so relatively few sentences, what a good mind and kind heart you reveal.

  I admire your aims, and I have no doubt you will succeed in broadening your vision, which already has significant depth and breadth.

  Whole-heartedly I wish you welcome here, and wish you a happy, fruitful, and pleasant journey, here, and everywhere you decide to go.

  What country are you from? What land do you live in right now?

  I am glad that you found my site and I am honored that you chose to comment on one of my poems.

  I enjoyed and admire the poem that you placed for me at my site, but I was so sad to learn after reading the poem, that its author killed himself by throwing himself on a rail, which means I suppose that he was killed by a train--not a happy way to go, although I suppose it was very quick.

  How could someone write such a lovely poem on the love of life, with such outgoing love for other people as well, and then commit suicide? Was he terminally ill and facing a slow painful death? I cannot imagine that it was for any reason other than that, not from such a life-loving heart.

  Was it for financial reasons? I would be surpised at that. Was it because he had lost his wife or lover, either to death or to another man? Better than a financial cause, but still, I would be surprised.

  No, he must have been terminally ill, right? Probably cancer. But you didn't want to say so in the comment you left at my site. Is this so? It's okay to say it, if it is so. The three greatest virtues, in my heart's evaluation, are honesty, courage, and love.

  If you know the reason why this gentle and life-loving soul ended his own life, so soon after writing such a life-affirming and well-wishing poem, I would sure like to know. Please tell me.

  In the meantime, again, welcome to Shine.

  I wrote a poem titled "Shine" about why I chose this site to write my poems about my medical condition and my response to that condition, as well as generally my love of life and what life means to me. You can find it among the poems I have posted now.

  I would be honered, again, to have you read it, or any of my other poems, and see if my heart says anything to your heart, across the gulf of separation that it is the part of poetry to try to bridge.

  Bye now.

  --PWC

  aka Mr. Poet

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  Posted by PoetWithCancer Wed Sep 9, 2009 4:14am PDT

  Dear Sassa,

  While I was writing my previous comment to you, you were at the same time writing another comment at the site of my poem "One Would Have Been Enough."

  So now I answer that comment.

  You graciously expressed your care and concern for me, and then you apologized, as you said, because you thought your words might be inappropriate or inaccurate. They were neither inappropriate nor inaccurate.

  The heart speaks its own language, and it is the same language universally, regardless of one's learned spoken and written language.

  When the heart speaks purely and truly, it is always poetry. So it is that your words were appropriate, accurate, and beautiful.

  I admire and appreciate your mind and your heart, and your true expression of them.

  Thank you for your sincere care and your loving concern, as close to me as if you were sitting at my side.

  I hope to hear from you often. You are welcome always at my site. I have subscribed to your blog, and will visit you again.

  Welcome to Shine.

  Bye now.

  --PWC

  aka Mr.Poet

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  Posted by Sassa Wed Sep 9, 2009 10:15am PDT

  Dear Mr. poet,

  I'm so grateful for your words here for me and all your shining posts at your site. As you've recommended, I have read all your poems at your site, deeply moved and to a great extent, benefiting. I've got a better understanding of life, love and trueness. I also left an overall comment in the post SHINE and I hope you can see it.

  Hope to be able to read your words and your beautiful heart often.

  Also, as you wondered about Haizi, I've collected and written a little more information about the poet and his poems in my latest post. I hope I've provided sth for you as you are wondering. Again glad to hear from you.

  Sassa

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