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 SoundofManyWaters News June 2025 Remarkably, SoundofManyWaters has now received over 3,000 views! Thank you so much everyone for taking the time to look at my poems. I hope you have enjoyed them and found them stimulating and inspiring. Although most of you are from the UK, over a thousand come from the USA, Canada and Singapore, with a large number of other countries also represented. I feel deeply humbled. There are now 40 posts on SoMW, which may make it hard to navigate the blog, find your favourites, or sort out the best poems from the ones that work less well for you. I personally feel disappointed that the posts appear just in date order, leaving some of what I like to think are really good poems way down the list where many potential readers may not look. I hope you will persevere in the belief that there may be gems to be mined deeper down. Two other less than perfect features of the blog are first that the poems appear at first sight as prose. At least one friend of mine...

Held

Held I am a stone chipped from a cold white tomb. In your firm grip I'm comforted and scared, my jagged edges fit wrong in your palm. Both strong and tender, soft and hard, you hold and hold and hold and hold; transformed deep till the pain of being slowly eases, quiet your life seeps in until I'm calmed. But from your hand around my sharpness oozes Redness. You could not grip me without wounds, My name engraved in pain in your pierced hands.