Put a cricket
in a skillet,
and he'll sing hot and fast.
I'm like that.
Lord, I'm like that.
I like my bridges burning
off the straight and narrow path
and my cats
bony black.
Don't try to be the bushel
where you think I hide my light.
Don't come dragging in the day
or dragging me from night.
You'll end a hollow haunting at the feast
while I swing from lean to fat.
Yes,
Lord,
I'm like that.
For Poetry Pantry at Poets United
If you have a minute, I have a poem in issue 8 of Firefly Magazine. Check it out!
Sunday, November 20, 2016
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- Maude Lynn
- Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ---Flannery O'Connor
14 comments:
Are you doing me? :)
I'd love to sing this to a sweet tune!
Beautifully haunting!!❤️
I love it! So much! Congrats on another published poem, Kelli. It's a good one, too. I know such childhoods, they run in my family like worn out old trains.
Kelli--I followed the link to the magazine. With such simple lines, you said so much. Congratulations to Firefly. They're lucky to have snagged a poem of yours.
(I love this one, too. The refrain, along with all the directions my mind goes in because of your well-crafted lines.)
And how wonderful that is :)
And that is indeed a good thing!
Amazing images... the cricket in the skillet... got me thinking of the frog in hot water...
That was awesome but you scared the shit out of me :)
ZQ
I love the way you've worked your words in this piece - very fresh and authentic. And congrats on the published poem. (I wasn't sure of your non nom de plume, so I read 'em all. Very cool writing.) I like to think of our published words, as little, somewhat hidden, breadcrumbs we leave behind that show that we passed that way.
I loved this. Sorry, but I'll seek you out wherever you think you'll hide. I'll read you for the rest of my life if given that opportunity! Thankful for you! - mosk
This one has attitude to spare, and congratulations on the Firefly publication! I had read that poem before and liked it. Happy Birthday!
Hope you are celebrated as you so deserve to be, Kelli....hope it is a wonderful year of writing for you. It will be a wonderful year of READING for us! Thank you for what your poems mean to me.
never had to move like that Firefly poem. damn.
happy Thanksgiving, Kelli. Hope it was peaceful ~
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