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Welcome to Midnight Song

Jackie Uhlemann, MA, LPC

Arizona Representative for the
National Association for Poetry Therapy


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Summer writing prompt:

 

For this is wrong, if anything is wrong:
not to enlarge the freedom of a love
with all the inner freedom one can summon.

We need, in love, to practice only this:
letting each other go. For holding on
comes easily. We do not need to learn it.

•  Rilke (Requiem for a friend - 1909)

 

What does the freedom of love mean to you?   What do you already know about love, that does not need learning?   Try starting with: I know this about love…