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Open Poetry #40

Love is a toad

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2007-06-24 04:05 PM

Love isn’t in my daily bread
nor in the corners of
insignificant temptations
so the check, re-check, concludes…
love’s a green/black bloated toad
playing “peek-a-boo, look at me”
in a senseless fantasy
before the hop and drop
into memory.

Toads croak when I’m asleep
and jump the lines of consciousness
meant to confine the mind
to the marshy swamps of life.

And it follows in my footsteps
like a ghostly apparition
in hop from air to land
as if it was a man
floating from a dream
into reality.

I love that toad wrought from soul
and will “tomorrow” when
“There, that’s done – here is love”
evades the obstacles
placed upon a lowly toad
in a fast paced city town.

But toads have left for pastures green
because life has moved the goal posts on
and that hippity-hippity, hip, hop-hop
in my senseless fantasy
maybe just a bug
in the sizzle of my love!

Helen / 24 June 2007

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

1 posted 2007-06-24 05:25 PM

Good and beautiful.

enjoyed.

aziza
Member Elite

since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

2 posted 2007-06-26 03:54 AM

You know, I never considered that love is a toad, but after reading your poem -- I can see the logic.

I love the originality of this write. And I really enjoy reading your poems.

A

dingusjr
Member

since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

3 posted 2007-06-26 01:46 PM

Heck, I've been that toad! Liked the poem,
Honey.

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