Saturday, January 22, 2022

Life is Crazy That Way

 

Photograph by Anita Sedberry at Harold Ross Fine Art Photography.

Life is a long road on a short journey. ~James Lendall Basford

 

Life is crazy that way

A bird that flies away and home all at once

It reaches tall

Like a boy at 16

And then stoops

Low like an exotic dancer

Leaving us mesmerized and complacent one time or another

It quivers like a flame

Yet is still like fog on a winding road

it moves slow like an old man’s stance

and then zooms fast like a dragon fly

it is erratic like a small child

and then floats on air like a ghost

it is a million loads of laundry

and yet just one true kiss

the kind one never forgets

long after the flame has burned out.


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25 comments:

  1. Carrie, I'm liking your write of constant figures of speech. Quickly you jump into simile usage of "like" comparison until the very end. My favorite of these is the 'quivering flane' as opposed to the 'foggy road' (driving is a challenge to me).
    I remember a few kisses, doesn't every one? Most vivid are two, one was my first time with a girl wearing glasses.
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    1. Thanks Jim, and yes, there are always those few kisses never forgotten.

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  2. My first kiss was at the yard gate when the lilac bush was in full bloom. The smell of lilacs will always bring back that memory!!

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    1. Sounds like it could be a lovely poem in itself Bev!

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  3. Love the back and forth, zig zag thought patterns in this poem! Well done!

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  4. Laundry divides and replicates itself when I am not looking.

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  5. Enjoyed every bit of it. Love all the beautiful images coming one after another. Specially love the images of an exotic dancer and an erratic child. Beautiful, Carrie.

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    1. Thank you so much Sumana! I really enjoyed your's as well.

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  6. I could feel the movement throughout the poem. Oh, and the thought of that one kiss will haunt throughout a lifetime.

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  7. All of your contrasts; rising and falling like waves, ripple to contentment. Nice one Carrie.
    Thanks for dropping by my blog today

    Much love...

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  8. Echoing others, I love the swift switch of image throughout. The flicker remains human, as does that last held breath.

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  9. Oh how I love this poem, especially "it is a million loads of laundry

    and yet just one true kiss". Fantastic!

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  10. "A bird that flies away and home all at once" I like that!

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    1. Thank you Qbit! By the way, I think it was a tie for you and Shay's fun poems!! 😊

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  11. Wonderful opening quote. Too much living in too little time for sure. I like the events you chose to highlight in your poem.

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  12. Love this contradictory road you have us traveling down.
    Excellent writing, Carrie!

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  13. The poem has so much movement. Made me feel like dancing a diagonal through the space of life, waltzing one two...to the right..one two...to the left....

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  14. "and then floats on air like a ghost

    it is a million loads of laundry

    and yet just one true kiss

    the kind one never forgets"

    that's a great detail, this poem is bouncing full of life and energy, enjoyed it very much

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  15. I enjoyed this personification of the flame. I feel like I know all of these characters.

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