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25 responses to “Cheering Down the Darkness: a #Quadrille #haibun”

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   Frank Hubeny

   December 3, 2018

   I like how the candle pierces the gloom.

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 3, 2018

      Thanks, Frank! 😀

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   whimsygizmo

   December 3, 2018

   YES:
   “That light shines in the darkness. That Love drives out hate. That we can.”

   YES. We can only do what we can do. But we can do much, in Love.

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 3, 2018

      Indeed! Thanks, De Jackson! 😀

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   Truedessa

   December 3, 2018

   Let that candle of light guide the way…

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 3, 2018

      Indeed! Thanks! 😀

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   kanzensakura

   December 3, 2018

   Yes. The light overcome darkness.

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 3, 2018

      Right? Thanks, Toni! 😀

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   Janice

   December 3, 2018

   The succinctness of this…feels like a ‘candle piercing the gloom’.

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   V.J. Knutson

   December 3, 2018

   We have to keep the flame of hope going!

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 4, 2018

      We do so best by bearing the light through the witness of our own lives. Thanks! 😀

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         V.J. Knutson

         December 4, 2018

         Yes. Well put.

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   rob kistner

   December 3, 2018

   I hope that’s true Frank. I sm losing faith my friend. Below here is a haiku I wrote in hope on September 12, 2001. Sadly, our country is in even more dire straits today. Horrifying!

   one can penetrate
   the pitch black of ignorance
   with love’s single light

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 4, 2018

      No matter how darkness encroaches, light remains. Even a single ray shines out within it. Your beautiful haiku testifies to this, and that testimony stands. Thanks for reading! 😀

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   Suzanne

   December 3, 2018

   That’s very profound. Hope is essential at present.

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 4, 2018

      Indeed. Thanks, Suzanne! 😀

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   rothpoetry

   December 4, 2018

   Yes … light a candle instead of cursing the darkness!

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      Frank J. Tassone

      December 4, 2018

      Exactly! Thanks, Dwight! 😀

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    kim881

    December 4, 2018

    Candlelight is so special.

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    peterfrankiswrites

    December 4, 2018

    Thanks Frank. Yes, that’s exactly the challenge of our times.

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       Frank J. Tassone

       December 4, 2018

       Indeed. Thanks, Peter! 😀

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    merrildsmith

    December 4, 2018

    I think this is why I love Hanukkah though I’m not religious. It’s that light in the darkness. If we lose hope, we have nothing.

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    Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

    December 4, 2018

    I think we need darkness to see the light… I just hope it doesn’t have the get pitch dark before we see the lone candle.

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    revivedwriter

    December 4, 2018

    I like your hopeful yet not saccharine message. There are some things that bring hope.

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       Frank J. Tassone

       December 4, 2018

       Well said! Thanks, revivedwriter! 🙂

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