My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #124, also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform
Image by Ronny Garcia Moron
“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”
—Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
I press poems
to my naked skin;
they escape so quickly
I must anchor them
with pen and ink
like ephemeral
rainbow tattoos.
Poetic butterflies
and dragonflies
take flight,
damsels in distress
I long to press
between pages,
paper cages
for dissolving images.
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 
these words are like the fluttering of pages – lovely light touch anchored in paper cages
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I love your rhyming couplet, Laura! Thank you!
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it really was accidental but evidently inspired by the mood you set here 🙂
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🙂
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Ah, I’ve always hated to have my eureka moments while taking a shower. The urge to write my ideas right at that moment so they won’t escape, is just too powerful. Love this, Kim!
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Thanks Maria!
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My pleasure. 😉
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I love this delectable piece of whimsy!
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Thank you, Rosemary!
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The elusive butterfly…nicely done!
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Thank you, Tim!
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I like this very much … especially the opening.
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Thank you kindly!
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That is a most evocative image, and your response is one I can immediately relate to.
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Thanks for dropping by Kerry!
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oh. this is one lovely way of putting how poetry “flies”. 🙂
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Thanks for reading!
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my pleasure. 🙂
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Pretty! Yes, words can be fleeting, can’t they?
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Words in such a hard fist striking my ears and soul bleeds understanding…. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Thanks for reading and commenting 😊
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How beautifully put. Everyone has words but only a few can put them together so well. Brilliant Kim.
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Thank you for your kind comments.
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Wonderfully written.
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Thank you, I will check it out.
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this is really beautiful
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Thank you!
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Lovely.
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Thank you!
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Goosebumps. I really like it.💜 followback
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Thanks for reading! I’ll be over to have a look!
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Beautifully written… you’ve truly inspired me ❤
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Thank you!
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