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Honeybunch
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0 posted 2010-11-22 01:28 AM


Of course I know how amazing it is
that life should believe I'm a frog
able to jump with effortless ease
over the hurdles placed on my track.

How, oh how, to arise like a frog
and land back like a human being
sends an electrical pulse
to the working part of a brain.

Go to the light - oh, mammoth delight,
the large and all-encompassing,
but what makes you think I'm in the dark
perceived as fiendishly evil?

It doesn't make sense to birth a "me"
and expect I transmute to a frog
when I simply have to stay as I am,
the light in my darkest sky.

I am the light out there on the track
over, beneath, and around
so move the hurdles, yes, just try
and I'm still over, beneath, around.

Am I a frog, a "me", hurdle
or am I plain and simply
that all-encompassing light
and a truly mammoth delight?  

Helen / 22 November 2010


© Copyright 2010 Helen - All Rights Reserved
mikeandrew
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1 posted 2010-11-22 06:33 AM


cool poem.like it
passing shadows
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displaced
2 posted 2010-11-22 06:46 AM


this is really neat

love the first verse most

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30
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3 posted 2010-11-22 06:56 AM


Ribbit, ribbit. Frog talk for finding yourself, frog or not.

. . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$!

ethome
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since 2000-05-14
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4 posted 2010-11-22 07:32 AM


I think you were kissed by a pransome hince!

Look how good you writes after that!.........

Eric

Honeybunch
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5 posted 2010-11-22 09:27 AM


  Thanks, everyone - and Eric, yes, there probably was a kiss ... by a hince (and isn't it great that we can interpret a word like that however we like).

Helen

latearrival
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6 posted 2010-11-22 03:43 PM


"Of course I know how amazing it is
that life should believe I'm a frog
able to jump with effortless ease
over the hurdles placed on my trackā€

I like frogs, it would be terrific if we could hurdle lives challenges as easily as they clear an obstacle?  jo


2gabby
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7 posted 2010-11-22 03:54 PM


word choice really brings to mind a frog (light, delight, etc).  awesome use of literary devices here.
Honeybunch
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8 posted 2010-11-22 03:57 PM


Hi Jo - I'm generally not too fond of "jumping things" but it's time for me to be like a frog and jump from here to there - and I thought my packing days were over.  Sigh! On the plus side I'll finally, for better or for worse, end up near the sea ... if I survive the time in between.  

Helen  


Honeybunch
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9 posted 2010-11-22 04:05 PM


Thanks 2gabby.  I appreciate the read and your comment.

Helen

latearrival
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10 posted 2010-11-22 11:02 PM


Ending up near the sea.You will love it,maybe you have to thank someone for making the decision for you. Sometimes it works better than anticipated. jo
Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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11 posted 2010-11-22 11:39 PM


Jo - I just wish that "somebody" wouldn't lead me through such chaos to get me where I have to be but I do know that without the chaos it wouldn't happen.  There won't be any turning back from this upcoming move.  Still working through the details though.
Love
Helen

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