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ep of a <a href="https://genius.com/The-grateful-dead-truckin-what-a-long-strange-trip-version-lyrics">long, strange trip</a>. How grateful I am. I am no longer dead.Camille weptwith me, then got to work summoning me back to an existence I could live with – oh, so wisely, eerily telepathically exorcising on the telephone my especial demon, self-pitythat I might thrive mightily this next pilgrimage on my own until her phone rings againor, perhaps, mine and it’s my turn to pay All forward with amends and amens.©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2022Thank you, <a href="undefined">Camille Hueni</a>, for the light you shine upon me. You’re more beautiful than any camellia blossom, and that’s saying something!Thank you, ever so friendly team at Paper Poetry — <a href="undefined">Carolyn Hastings</a>, <a href="undefined">Indubala Kachhawa</a>, and <a href="undefined">Suntonu Bhadra</a> — for a brilliant prompt I couldn’t resist. May we forever remain friends.<div id="c029" class="link-block">

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My pal lives up to her (floral) name & helps the rest of us bloom, too

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In Latin, camellia means helper to the priest. Symbol Sage. The name Anouk is a girl’s name of Dutch origin meaning grace. Nameberry

I talked to Camille last night. Wondrous, how someone can clasp my hand as gently as she scoops Anouk the cat into her lap

while, two time zones away, she besprinkles paw prints of grace in my path to comfort and guide me

Saints bilocate, and I am not magical thinking when I insist Camille is mastering the remedial tricks of their compassionate trade.

With me, she has walked every step of a long, strange trip. How grateful I am. I am no longer dead.

Camille wept

with me, then got to work summoning me back to an existence I could live with – oh, so wisely, eerily telepathically exorcising on the telephone my especial demon, self-pity

that I might thrive mightily this next pilgrimage on my own until her phone rings again

or, perhaps, mine and it’s my turn to pay All forward with amends and amens.

Thank you, Camille Hueni, for the light you shine upon me. You’re more beautiful than any camellia blossom, and that’s saying something!

Thank you, ever so friendly team at Paper Poetry — Carolyn Hastings, Indubala Kachhawa, and Suntonu Bhadra — for a brilliant prompt I couldn’t resist. May we forever remain friends.

Love.

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Paying It Forward

My pal lives up to her (floral) name & helps the rest of us bloom, too

Let’s Be Friends

And that’s what friends are for