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Annalisa deBoebe's avatar

Thank you for the link from FB. My mother first introduced me to your poetry decades ago, and made a tape for me of you reading Mary Oliver’s work with particularly beautiful emphasis you placed upon her phrasing. I’ve read your poetry on FB and am happy to be here at Substack.

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David McNamara's avatar

And on the road you meet those who come before you .

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Jane Moody's avatar

Beautifully articulated on FB. I've just moved to Bluesky for the same reasons. Thank you for doing this! We have to fight back and yours was a most elegant of transitions.

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Nova Andrea Loverro's avatar

This was the poem that let me let go… it took me where I needed to be. Thank you

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Nicola Trudy's avatar

This truly explains our incarnation, the birth journey. I witnessed my own in a Cranial sacral session, it gave me a lot of answers as to why I didn't want to come out, that I was late and needed forceps which were so painful. And once you go down the tunnel, like a rollercoaster of slight fear and slight excitement, there's no going back... That bit is also sad because the 'learning' here can be really hard at times.

But the first time you realise you have fingers and toes, a heart and a nose.... Now that's magic and that feeling is why we stepped up in the first place ❤️

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Anton's avatar

David — this one felt like a soft hand on the back, nudging me toward the unknown I keep circling.

That line — “Half a step into self-forgetting / and the rest restored by what you’ll meet” — gave me chills. There’s such quiet courage in trusting the road we can’t yet see, especially when the world inside us mirrors the one outside.

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Judy Ensell's avatar

Thank you

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Laurie Christomos's avatar

Beautiful, as always, David. Thank you.💙

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Cathy Gillis's avatar

Hits home

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Elise Marianne's avatar

Beautiful.

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Belle de la Nouveau's avatar

✨️✨️✨️✨️Beautiful ✨️ ✨️ ✨️ ✨️

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Just beyond yourself—where the ego panics and the soul throws a welcome party. Whyte doesn’t write poems, he hands out subtle instructions for disappearing just enough to remember what’s real. This one lands like a compass etched on the ribcage.

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Megan - Renaissance Gal's avatar

So beautiful and it resonated so viscerally for me! Thankyou for this beautiful poem

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From the Threshold's avatar

This poem isn’t just beautiful. It’s a mirror. Thank you for always inspiring me. I love spending three Sundays every other month with you.

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AnnietheMiller's avatar

Thank you so much for your true aim! The ones you are speaking to can become the ones you are talking about as easily as an arrow weathers in flight on its way to landing, so your true aim is such a comfort!

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Annie Hartford's avatar

Always wisdom that speaks to and flows into my heart. I try…

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