bundles of letters
sorted and tied up with string
life’s contradictions
Kim M. Russell, 1st August 2018
My response to Poets United Midweek Motif ~ “a bundle of contradictions” (from Anne Frank’s last letter)
Susan has shared the last entry in Anne Frank’s diary and a range of quotations and poems on the Midweek Motif; our challenge is to write a new poem with the motif ‘a bundle of contradictions’ or inspired by Anne Frank.
writing in north norfolk 
Kim, I wish life could sorted so simply, but life is never so simple.
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Me too. x
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The string indicates an attempt to put them away. I know because I have a few boxes of contradictions!
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🙂
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A WOW!!! haiku. Love the bundles and the string contradictions. Theres a nice tension on tbid baiku
Happy you dropped by my blog today Kim
Much💟love
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Thank you, Gillena! 🙂
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I wish i had saved many more letters than i did.
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I did but I lost them in a house move!
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Aha…To read or not to read 🙂
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🙂
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What a wonderful image!
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Thank you, Rosemary!
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An exquisite haiku, Kim! ❤ I love the image of those letters .. the possibility of light and heavy news and the decision left to the person whether or not to indulge. So much in such few words! 😊
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Thank you, Sanaa! 🙂 xxx
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I read that many times and am so intrigued by it… can mean so many things…lovely.
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Thank you, Rajani. That is the beauty of micropoetry.
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I, too, love old letters—my parents’ courtship letters, my dead uncle’s letters about struggling with words (he was a poet), my own childish letters to my grandmother, which she had kept in a bundle of love and yes, contradictions…
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I also enjoy looking at the beautiful handwriting.
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