Sometimes our minds get a little big for their britches and think they rule us. Sometimes it's a good idea to give your mind the finger. I like your poem of empowering freedom from all of those tape recordings that dictate to us.
Smiling, back when I was an older teen I tried escape from a radar trap. I got caught later in the afternoon when I came home to change for work. Not sitting and waiting for me but still they were cruising the neighborhood. ..
Whoa! I love "the fall may give you wings". And such deep wisdom in the second stanza, the path many poets choose.
ReplyDeleteThere is such heaviness in a seemingly lithe leap! You poets can punch a wallop with a pencil:)
ReplyDeleteA poem dedicated to that 'leap of faith' - this is such a memorable line I might just use it as MO
ReplyDelete"The fall may give you wings"
An amazing poem with a brilliant title! So much wisdom flowing here. The kind only experience can teach. I love this Susie!!
ReplyDeleteBeautifully penned ... I can visualize printing it out, standing in front of a mirror, each morning reading it aloud to myself.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard it put better than those final two lines.
ReplyDelete+100 to Fireblossom. "The fall may give you wings" - fantastic.
ReplyDeleteSometimes our minds get a little big for their britches and think they rule us. Sometimes it's a good idea to give your mind the finger. I like your poem of empowering freedom from all of those tape recordings that dictate to us.
ReplyDeleteSmiling, back when I was an older teen I tried escape from a radar trap. I got caught later in the afternoon when I came home to change for work. Not sitting and waiting for me but still they were cruising the neighborhood.
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"The fall may give you wings"--Aah...I've always believed in this leap of faith.
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