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Oct 28
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fire girl

Instead let’s vote for the dragonfly

On my green pond
lily pads link roots
and leave thinking space
above drowning.

Now that I’ve aged 
 (willingly now)

I know dragonflies’ wings
represent the raised veins
on the back of my clobbered hands,
the iridecent wings. 

Why not make them
the furthest lifeline 
and live to accomplish each flight?

Every 4 years
it's their election.

Every 4 years 
I am older,
still waiting.

You play her like a piano,
stumbling over each note until
a beautiful ballad falls out. 

One day each tree will bring out
an organic grass fed napkin
and seep up the love pooling at their roots.

Each dangling apple will let go
and the struggle to fall gracefully
will be told again to the earth,
recognized to be unanimous.

I look out upon disaster
and call it beautiful. 

And all the bloody flowers
will look up and finally
let the blood
drip. 
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Posted: 10.28.20
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" to choose to write is to reject silence" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Oct 28, 2020

    This is stunning. I was going to try to pick out specific pieces of imagery, but I just love all of it!

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  1. fire girl
    Oct 28, 2020

    Thank you!!

    " to choose to write is to reject silence" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  1. SpookyCatHalloween
    Oct 29, 2020

    I agree YellowSweater
    It is a truly beautiful poem and as soon as It caught my eye, I knew I had to read it.

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  1. fire girl
    Oct 29, 2020

    Aww thanks guys!

    " to choose to write is to reject silence" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  1. Treblemaker
    Oct 29, 2020

    I would try and pick my favorite stanza but I'd actually just wind up copy and pasting the entire poem. How Beautiful! So very beautiful. I held my breath because I didnt want to scare the dragonfly. What a way with words!

    I write because the music of language spoke to me in books and I wanted to make a beautiful noise to answer back ~ Lee Williams.

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  1. fire girl
    Nov 02, 2020

    Thanks for reading and commenting!

    " to choose to write is to reject silence" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  1. Roses
    Nov 09, 2020

    i don’t know what to say. I LOVE THIS POEM!!! it’s something that makes it so special and unique... the imagery or even the concept. lovely

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  1. fire girl
    Nov 09, 2020

    ❤️❤️❤️

    " to choose to write is to reject silence" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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