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Another Marionette: light verse
Please tell me: just who pulls your strings?
I’d really like to know.
I see you making pirouettes
and flitting to and fro,
much like a butterfly, who lights
on flowers here and there,
and samples each one with delight
not getting anywhere.
Myself? I am a puppet too,
I dance a merry jig,
although I found out years ago
my role is not that big. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, control, daily poems, dancing, illusion, light verse, music, poetic forms, puppets
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The Cow Sutra: a double dactyl
Higgledy-piggledy, Tabitha Johnson went to the marketplace and bought a cow, spur of the moment, unpremeditated. She had no need for it but owns it now. Higgledy-piggledy, Samuel Swanson met Tabby halfway home crying the blues. “What will I do?” … Continue reading