this is me

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NovPAD Day 1 (Beginning & End Poems) + Miz Quickly (Introduce yourself)

beginning

I touch them
those crisp little suns 
paper daisies waving

and think 
that’s who I want to be
bright and certain

intractable as the frogs
planning world domination
from ditches full of trickling

me

in the spring
the jonquil appears
a hidden bulb


ending

he tells me
old people think of death
“I’m one of them”
he says

I regard the door he’s shut
its certain grain

through the keyhole
I hear that whistle
like the crying of lost winds

and yet I know 
fear sprung from any pain

shapeless and blinding
as cataracts

Written for Miz Quickly and the Writers Digest PAD

Published by abigfatcanofworms

We all walk in the dark. But if we hold hands, perhaps the dark won't be as scary.

Published

11 thoughts on “this is me”

  4. Just adore this. I love the ending most. But the quiet interlude of “me” says so much too. Sort of a shy bravery.

    “through the keyhole
    I hear that whistle
    like the crying of lost winds” – this stanza is simply wonderful.

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