tossing sticks (thanks mute)

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Open Poetry #38

tossing sticks (thanks mute)

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

0 posted 2006-07-05 10:42 PM

tossing sticks and stones,
counting pebbles
as they land,
each one a heartbeat,
stoned

sticks of stark reality
mark passages of time;
so many lives measured
in start-to-finish lines,
a beginning, an ending;
some sticks are longer,
carry more weighted memories,
yet still they sink to the depths

and on the surface a leaf floats,
hoping to make the trip
all the way downstream
bobbing along,
serendipitously
without getting snagged
by the stick arms
sticking out,
begging
for another moment
of freedom

and here I sit,
the edges of this babbling brook
lapping and laughing at me,
telling me to stop seeing
it as the Styx

thanks mute, for the inspire
setting free one caught in the watery dungeon
known as my journal of not-posted-yets

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inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

1 posted 2006-07-05 11:01 PM

i saw a yellow leaf today
tanning itself
under the sun
turning brown
on its way to harvesttime
without a thought
it just goes
if only we could
be leaves on the brook

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

2 posted 2006-07-05 11:04 PM

oh, I do like your reply, lady!

Kielo
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since 2002-02-11

Posts 1109

3 posted 2006-07-07 01:00 AM

I really like this. I do this far too often, make monsters out of shadows, and let little things like sticks in a stream be metaphors for awful things in my life. My saving grace is that I've learned to laugh at myself.

Thank you

Adam

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

4 posted 2006-07-07 01:15 AM

Adam, what a nice reply. Thanks for the visit, and hope to see something from your muse soon.

themute
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since 2006-05-08

Posts 469
Maryland

5 posted 2006-07-07 02:26 AM

you flatter me midnight as much as i hope i flatter you sometimes

I am the two-toed wanderer

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