I read a poem echoing Emily Dickinson, commentary on two Greek goddesses, love letters on what makes us united, and a final poem inspired by the story of Demeter and her daughter Persephone.

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I am reading one poem this week in two very different versions--the firs was written when I was a sophomore in high school wrestling with Chemistry. The most recent was revised this past June. The poem deals with the pressure of time and our love letters look at how we help each other cope with all kinds of pressure.

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I read two poems--one from our days in New Jersey, when we first began to dialogue on deep feelings, and the other from our move to Northern California when I discovered how different the climate and geography were and how profoundly the differences affected me. In between, I read our letters on how dialogue was changing us.

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My poem looks at all the things that can distract me when I try to ponder abundance, and our love letters speak about what can distract us from each other.

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We're taking a summer romp in the garden, with a poem on the longest day in my garden, and a reference to Monet's gardens at Giverny, followed by a couple of longer love letters where Wes and I celebrate our love and look at ways to make it even better.

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Creation fills the poem of the week, and marriage in the modern world is the subject of our love letters, as we ponder ways we are pulled apart in spite of wanting to grow closer. This elucidates love as, not a feeling, but a decision we have to make over and over again if we want our love to keep growing and deepening.

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I open with an ode to a hummingbird breaking open the dawn, read our love letters on what we appreciate in ourselves, the other, and our coupleness. Then I read a brand new poem, maybe not even finished, just for the sheer exhilaration of it.

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Our poems focus on falling in love in high school, and moving toward marriage in college. The love letters look at areas of our relationship where we needed to listen to each other more deeply, with our hearts.

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I open with a poetic domestic scene and include love letters that look at how we are called to make each other first, and how our work and parenting impact our marriage.

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I begin with a prize-winning poem and a word of the day that reveals an unknown challenge to change. In our love letters, we were challenged to make some changes in our relationship which ultimately led to greater closeness in both the way we listened to each other and how we spent our time.

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