A Daily Dose of Words

Dec 18, 2009 17:09

I've decided the most effective way to use this journal is to have it guilt me into writing something every day.  When I write for myself, there's not enough pressure.  I need to push my wordlings out of the nest so they'll grow wings (Hopefully.  Otherwise it would just be messy).  Eh voila, the internet.

To that end, I'm joining a ton of writing communities.  Peer pressure and all that.  It's been going good so far: When I woke up this morning, my first thought was of my journal.  Wait, that's a lie.  My first thought was of how much I had to pee.   My second thought was whether my laptop had finished defragging.  Then came several thoughts about the merits of fried eggs.  But the journal was up there, nonetheless.   Anyway, I'm babbling.  To the words!

Felinity

I found him, afterward,
a brilliant mess of claw-combed feathers--
a rough brush, evidence of impatient hunger.

All reddened whiskers and emerald squint,
you ascend the rock wall like a jury box,
climbing above my garden and guilt.

We are gifting and gifted,
irrespective of fur tones and table manners.

I bend to see the brightness of the body,
ink black eyes with the light pouring out,
the things the dust has dulled.

I am afraid of my stomach,
of the rumbling insistence
hiding behind the smooth machinery of bones,
of the garden and the wall.

So don't come after me,
mouth full of the taste of sparrows.  
I had nine lives
before you ever came around.

Just a wee poem, built around my love of sparrows (and the fact that my cat has recently found herself a gentleman friend).  I'm also posting it to the 100 poems,100 days challenge, which fits in nicely with my new writing resolution.  :) Au revoir!

daily writing, poetry

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