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Just Kayla's avatar

Love, Love the form—the sensuality, the dichotomy and oh the irony—sprinkle in the delicious word pairings. And top it with an amazing image. that makes the poetry pop. So you. Doing you.

<3 sharing with us.

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

I think my cherry-flavored ego just popped after reading your kind words ⚡️⚡️⚡️.

Thanking you from the bottom of my blackened heart.

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Vixen's avatar

Subscribed!

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Edward Swafford's avatar

Wow, thank you! 🥹🥹

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uhadmatter's avatar

Bravo my friend 👏🏾 (I still have yet to read as I’m still learning the flow of substack 😅)

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

Dawg you crazee, learn dat flow.

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Marcia Abboud's avatar

Your voice brings it all to life, Edward. I want to hear every poem you create. Nothing less will do. Sun signs of the tectonic times... what a line! 🤍🖤

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Edward Swafford's avatar

I use too many “S” sounding words, I go into auto-lisp mode 😂😂.

It’s not my fault, half of the best words have an “S” assonance/start with S 🤷🏻‍♂️🖤

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BJ Dawson's avatar

Quite the impressive flexing of your vast lexicon. :)

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Edward Swafford's avatar

It’s just how I write, not a flex 😂😂🥰🥰🍦

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Maisie Archer's avatar

I just love "semiotic lust" - I can't stop staying it out loud

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Edward Swafford's avatar

😂😂 It does roll off the tongue 🖤🖤

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E.R. Davis's avatar

This was something else. This was like the poem that will be someone's favorite poem in a dogeared book they paid more than they could afford to spend at an upscale flea market but did it anyway because it was a first print edition and those are impossible to find.

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Edward Swafford's avatar

Thanking you dearly, dear.

I found tattered scraps of it from a flea market and pieced it together with some minor edits 🙏.

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E.R. Davis's avatar

Silly I meant it was a future classic. But if you have a DeLorean and are going to flea markets in the future pick me up something cool.

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A. Njoto's avatar

Wow.... this is something else! Great work, Edward! Love everything here esp the linguistic references. Brilliant!

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Edward Swafford's avatar

Thank you! Signs and syntax are so intriguing.

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A. Njoto's avatar

It is well!! You mentioned my degree as well there lol

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Edward Swafford's avatar

Semiotics?

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A. Njoto's avatar

philology

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Ann Marie Steele's avatar

I listened to this piece...it's beautifully written!

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Edward Swafford's avatar

Thank you so much, Queen Ann.

And we thank you for the paid sub!! I’ve got two mouths to feed in the form of Joziah and Hazza 👶👶.

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Ann Marie Steele's avatar

Queen Ann! Lol…..

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Debdutta Pal's avatar

You're killing me with your formatting prowess.

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Edward Swafford's avatar

🎶 Killing Debdutta softly, with this for-mat-ting (song) a ong a ong 🎶

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