A Fish Story
My soul is like a goldfish
that wants to be seen
but doesn’t like attention
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The ocean is too big
the fishbowl too small
I’m afraid to be abandoned
but want to be alone
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In a dream I grow legs
carry the fishbowl outside
where happy cats live with sparrows
and sunlight swallows shadows
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~ Colleen Redman
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October 25th, 2011 11:45 am
You did it again dear. Excellent little poem. You say so much in so few words.
October 25th, 2011 6:09 pm
I like this a lot and have felt it too!! xo
October 25th, 2011 6:11 pm
PS I like the picture too it flows perfect with the poem!
October 25th, 2011 6:17 pm
This was mostly written after spending a weekend in DC at the Michael Meade workshop http://looseleafnotes.com/wp/2011/05/meeting-michael-meade/ and after the goldfish story he told us.
October 25th, 2011 7:56 pm
Happy cats would have a tummy full of goldfish as they chased sparrows..haha…so much said in your verse, once agian wonderful job
October 25th, 2011 8:04 pm
We’re all full of paradoxes and contradictions–growing legs seems like a very good middle road here. Enjoyed your economy of words, which said everything needed.
October 25th, 2011 8:31 pm
Ooh… I really enjoyed this one!
October 25th, 2011 9:20 pm
smiles colleen! A happy fish dreaming about growing legs and carrying his fishbowl outside…… What a lovely, magical, imaginative world you live in! I just so love coming by to visit it!!!!
October 25th, 2011 11:18 pm
as long as the cats stay away from the fish bowl…smiles…i think i exist somewhere between the fishbowl and the ocean…
October 26th, 2011 6:52 am
Colleen, I just love this. Great!
October 26th, 2011 8:40 am
Very nice, a lot to think on.
October 26th, 2011 9:44 am
A lovely poem that hovers between haiku in feeling, or choka, but is all its own.
Lady Nyo
October 26th, 2011 11:17 pm
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October 30th, 2011 10:40 am
might be my favorite poem of yours.
maybe you’d want an observation tower in your pool like this: http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2011/10/koi-observation-tower.html