So often it’s easier to define something by what it is NOT rather than what it is.

…rs glow softly after a raging fire, while ice burns Summer-tongues, even if it tastes sickly sweet. Everything is shaped by what it’s n…rs glow softly after a raging fire, while ice burns Summer-tongues, even if it tastes sickly sweet. Everything is shaped by what it’s not… Gray doesn’t lie between black and white, not when yellow adds richness to it, just as mice are neit…
Beyond Starlight: Beauty On the Edge of Oblivion
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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So often it’s easier to define something by what it is NOT rather than what it is. 
Why I love poetry—the endeavor to depict. Capital D depict. (As you do so gorgeously) I try to pick the road marked Is rather than Is Not but sometimes fall into pothole rabbit holes. Warrens where I lose my way
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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