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When I cannot rest but only think,

When I cannot think but only stare,

When the vast distance begins to shrink

with any the same as everywhere,

I will write to you.

When words are too crude to calm the storm

And nature gives with a savage grace,

When hail and snow keep you from the warmth

and there doesn't seem to be escape,

I will think of you.

In my thoughts I will truly be free

to jump or stretch or procrastinate,

though in my mind I'll always believe

that for my body it is too late.

I will jump with you.

When the corporeal one day fails,

when the future is too hard to see,

when what cures you is also what ails,

know that forever can never be.

I will read with you.

When the blankets we use are too hot

and the weather outside is too cold,

when we learn what's real and what is not

will we understand when we are old?



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It was a pleasure for me to read this poetry, Prufarchy! Thanks for sharing.
Upvoted & Followed.

Thank you for reading!

Your poetry is divine. Truly. It comes straight from your spirit. I wish there was a way to set up favorites on steemit, now that I've come to know more people I often miss posts. I need to make a list of blogs to go to every day, yours an @opheliafu's would be the perfect place to start every morning :)

That's so awesome to hear. I'm really glad I can be a part of your morning or day at all :)

You may want to check out @unipsycho 's tool Autosteem. It has an autovoting cue that you can set up so that there will be a list of your fav authors waiting for your vote. You can also set it to auto vote those as well but I'm looking at it for a targeted list of posts that I don't want to miss. It's pretty useful and could help you automate your list : ) happy steeming!

I got it all figured out, thanks, this is great!

That's a great tip, I will definitely check that out thanks!!

I like this. And, you chose really great gifs to go with it! Can I ask - how did you get your text and photos centered? I had found a post that showed how - but it didn't work for me. I ended up having to "hand center" mine with spaces. Wish I knew the proper way! Looking forward to the next poetry slam and to see what the topic will be!

Are you using the markdown editor or the Raw HTML editor? on the "submit a story" page there should be an option on the right to switch between HTML editor and markdown. I can't speak to HTML editor as I don't use it too much, but for markdown you add "< center >WORDS/IMAGE TO CENTER< /center > --- I left spaces, but when you take out the spaces it should look like this

Image/words!

I hope that helps :)

OK - I will try it again on my next post. I think I had the last slash in the wrong spot. (oops) And, I think what you mean is not to have any spaces, right? Do you do this separately with each portion of text and each photo? Or can you sandwich everything between the

and the
? I'll have to play around with it. I used to have this basic code stuff figured out years ago with one of my old websites. lol I'm rusty.
Thanks!!!

Sorry, I missed this response... did you get it working?????

Haven't tried it yet. I'll let you know! ;)

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