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She could not help the pull of lore
And hopes that drew on her
Heart like a magnet right into
The polar
Opposite of what
She had been raised to
Know and
Want.
For how could she possibly
Be anything but
What she
Was?
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Na'ama Yehuda 
Oooh… Love this, Na’ama! She cannot, I say.
I hadn’t looked at today’s challenge until now and wasn’t gonna but… maybe…
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Thanks! Yeah, I wasn’t gonna, and I was tired after a long day but then I saw the prompt and … well … I had ta’.
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And ya done more’n good, too!
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Smooch! 🙂
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😘
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This is thought-provoking! Nicely done.
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Thank you!!
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I love the visual architecture of the poem, Na’ama, it complements the pull or weight of that last question.
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Thank you, Dora! I am so glad it augmented the words with the weight of the question … this was very much the intended effect! 🙂 Yay!
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My goodness this is good! 💝 The quadrille has a magnetic pull all on its own!
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Thank you so much! 🙂 Am delighted you liked it. And … yes, I love the quadrille!
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You cannot change… but sometimes you still don’t know what you are.
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So true! And yet, when you do … you’d do well to be who you KNOW you’re meant to be! 🙂
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Gotta be me…what else can I be?
I loved this, Na’ama. Hope she’s being true to herself, to the end.
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Yes, all we can be is who we are, though so often it is not an easy thing to come to terms with or get approval for. How odd is that? You’d think it would be encouraged. But, no … And yet … many do still find a way to be true to themselves. Not easy, but oh-so-worth-it!
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A magentic pull to be true to yourself and your inner knowing. I like that idea.
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Thanks, Ali! I think that it is often stronger than we want to admit and that too many of us learn to spend a goodly amount of our energy taping down and explaining away the urge to be ourselves. That said, it does not mean all of us have to run away with the circus … 😉
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What a wonderful poem to get the mind thinking. Thanks for sharing this.
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Thank you! So glad you liked this! 🙂
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