Sharon Brogan wrote the following poem as a 'snap' for poetryetc last Wednesday:
I am stubborn, sulky
and sullen, caught
in a thorned net
of dreams --
too many children
in need of rescue,
too many villians
smug, and famously
unpunished. I am
a glass jar, filled
with judgement
and despair --
even as a rainbow
circles the sun;
even as the aspen
sings and shimmers
in the wind. I refuse
to take pleasure.
I will not listen.
I will not see.
--
~ Sharon Bragon =^..^=
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To which I replied:
I am open to
suggestion, free
in a life of
comfort and choices,
my children so
secure and active,
villains locked away
in the jug, silenced
forever. I am
a strong breeze, filling
sails of laughter
and life --
a rainbow around
the sun, a white gum
by the river
as it shimmers
in response. I delight
in taking pleasure.
I hear the city
whispering and see
the ocean lapping.
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