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Stray Thought 14
Was a singer, not a monk Songs written by others fell from her lips, like nurturing rain Often dreamed of dragonflies guarding the gates of dream-time where own song lived, unheard Elizabeth Crawford 11/14/2017 Note: In Native American mythology, dragonflies … Continue reading
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Tagged dragonflies, dreamtime, Micropoetry, monk, rain, singer, unheard
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Stray Thought 13
“Hush child. You know there are those days when the words stretch, like lacy tree branches, but can’t quite reach, to find and make meaning. Let them be, but listen as they whisper between themselves of wind and soft breezes. … Continue reading
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Tagged freedom, meaning, Micropoetry, reaching, soft breezes, tree branches, words
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Stray Thought 12
Before the surgery, they shaved off her creamed-coffee curls. Replaced them with a scar that arched over her left ear. Used a steel pin to stop up the hole where bone had been broken. Doctor said she was his “Miracle” … Continue reading
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Tagged distrust, Micropoetry, miracle, personal haibun, scar, steel pin, surgery
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Stray Thought 11
“It’s okay. I understand. You followed the words and they took you back to the very beginnings and that scared you. I’m here to remind you that fear is only a feeling, never a fact, and the words will always … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginnings, continue, fear, feelings, flutter, Micropoetry
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Stray Thought 10
Once upon a time, not so long ago in memory, there was a little girl who thought her heart was a fluttering butterfly. One day she slipped face first beneath the rear wheel of her father’s reversing black Pontiac, and … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, butterfly, change, Mexico, Micropoetry, migration, Wisconsin
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Stray Thought 8
That what if… butterfly flutters through the heart moving from sweetness to sweetness, sucking it up through her feet so it must filter through her entire being before she rises again fluttering her way into the mind, where she explodes … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, flutter, heart, hunger, Micropoetry, mind, what if
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Stray Thought 6
You make curiosity sound like a bad, maybe even dirty thing, when in all reality, throughout human history, that ability to wonder what might happen if…, has been the greased propellant that foreshadowed forward movement. Elizabeth Crawford 11/6/2017 Posted at … Continue reading
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Tagged curiosity, forward movement, human history, Micropoetry, propellant, wonder if
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Stray Thought 5
“But, what of Choice? You make it sound like you were no more than a dumb animal, blindly following the carrot dangling down in front of you.” Elizabeth Crawford 11/5/2017 Posted at Micropoetry: November 2017 https://thotpurge.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/micropoetry-month-nov-2017-5/ Save Save Save
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Tagged carrot, choice, conversation, dangling, dumb animal, following, Micropoetry
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