a hummingbird – gently insistent –
tangled itself into my hair
and peeked from beneath to titter
into my un-understanding ear
***
they showed to me the uneven patch
you had mown in the grass – the short
beside the long – before the star super nova’d
in your chest and you fell to green forever
***
strange gray paint on the pillars
of that house in New Orleans –
I leaned on your rusted red bike,
said the universe wants me to tell you…
© Sarah Whiteley
Haven’t tried writing using fragments of dreams before…interesting result.
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I left out the one with the zombies 🙂
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Something happened with the “follow” button, because I came here today just wondering if you still hadn’ t posted since the sparrows and lo and behold all these January poems that I missed! I’m going to savor them now. And I think I fixed the “follow” problem.
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I’ve had that happen to me too! Suddenly I wouldn’t be following some of my regulars anymore. Glad you figured it out 🙂
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cool Sarah!
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Sometimes I have found that if I write fragments into my notebook they coalesce at a later stage into a complete poem! Don’t throw these away Sarah.
David
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Fragments are treasures–they might be rhinestones, and end up diamonds.
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