My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Play It Again, Toads
Words Count with Mama Zen: Is your life a circus? If so, which circus performer are you? Tell me about your act . . . in 90 words or less.
The long and precarious
Tightrope walk
Stopped
When I left the big top
Of education.
Now,
I walk on creative stilts,
Sometimes tottering,
Sometimes tumbling
Into the safety net
Of words and rhyme –
And I don’t worry,
Because I have all the time
I need to perfect
My act.
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
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writing in north norfolk 
I really like the way you’ve set up the line breaks in this. It reinforces that feel of tottering you’ve described.
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Thank you for reading, Rommy, and for your comments.
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Teachers will always find ways to keep the mind occupied, even after retirement. Your metaphor is spot on.
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Thank you for reading, Kerry!
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I like that way of looking at it. 🙂
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I’m quite in love with your title. Going from the demanding tightrope to stilts (that are willing to wait) sounds like my kind of thing these days. 🙂
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Kim I well understand your ‘stilts’ walking happy and creative hours to you. Thanks for dropping by my blog
Much love…
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I love this and I resonate with it…….school is such a nightmare for kids, and worse for we sensitive creative folk. Love the tilting creative stilts you walk on now. Yay!
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Love, love, love this. This spoke to my heart, as one who has also walked the tight rope of academia’s halls, and now walks with words and rhyme on creative stilts of the poems I write. Oh, that we may keep writing our selves, building our stilts taller and taller – will they ever reach the moon? I feel as if we are among the stars…Thanks for sharing!
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Oh, thanks for reading!
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