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Being Raised on Gerber Cream of Guilt Soup
by Diana J Legun

Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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gives one an edge

to walk a lifetime on,

teetering, balancing in a stoop

and a stretch, a lean, to wedge

here and there a piton

to peg a survival loop --

a hoop in the climb from Shame.

 

 


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Reviewed by Kate Burnside 6/13/2012
SO POWERFUL, Diana, and each trembling syllable makes me sweat. Love the spareness which speaks of the keen tautness of every strained sense and "paranoid" antenna. Jonah is my first, middle and surname for certain sure; I was thought to be a gall stone pre-birth and quickly became a millstone after... xx
Reviewed by Vivian Dawson 6/13/2012
Wandering far from home *Diana*
expanding horizons can cure that
need of soup!!!! you so richly
wrote about....

Lady Vivian
Reviewed by Annabel Sheila 6/13/2012
This is life in a teacup....its a great balancing act where guilt and shame, the heaviest burdens we carry, keep trying to knock us down...it truly takes a lifetime to shed that load and realized your own worth....took me 34 years! But I'm at the top of that climb now...still licking my wounds...but breathing fresh air untainted by shame....
Reviewed by Lily of Lough Neagh C. Dennis-Woosley 6/12/2012
this seemed to be the theme of our era, but most of us strong souls manage to overcome those hurdles and "balancing in a stoop" for we should never have to grow through shame, but a lovely way "to peg a survival loop -- a hoop in the climb of Shame."

Nicely done

Love and Light
Lily
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton 6/12/2012
And the air smells of exhilaration after that survivalist climb, never to look down at Shame again.
Reviewed by Odin Roark 6/12/2012
Interesting use of the climber tools to dramatize the tenuous nature of peace of mind, given the clubbing most of take growing up in a duplicitous conditioning.
Reviewed by Budd Nelson 6/12/2012
Diana,
I never did care much for soup, now I know why. I can't balance either.
Budd
Reviewed by Asa Seeley 6/12/2012
standing tall...after bending low, for so long. thanks for the share

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