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I tempt fate
with childish pluckings -
unwanted revelations
tossed.
Start over again
with devotional plea -
innocence held
between prayerful fingers.
Start anew, summer's spirit
chained about my head -
upon my lips "he loves me,
he loves me not".
Pagan or Christian?
Tell me
what I want to hear
and I promise to convert.
by Margaret Bednar, August 30, 2014
Oh, the impetuousness (sometimes not so childish) heart!
This is for "Imaginary Garden of Real Toads - Sunday Feature Artist - Kelly Letky'
19 comments:
As always, this is just wonderful, Margaret, and Kelly's photograph is really beautiful.
Beautiful choice to write to, Margaret and you've brought an added emotive depth to this, too...nicely rendered. :)
What a powerful ending. And I love the opening too:
"I tempt fate
with childish pluckings"
Ah! This is simply lovely. I love the final thought. Love is its own religion.
i like the innocence, playfulness and the sweet anxiety leading to deeper thoughts here...a lovely write :)
There may a lot more truth than you intended, in that last line!
Which way to be, such a crossroad for innocents ~ I hope he or she chooses well ~
You know I love this Margaret--I personally like to believe in whatever is most beautiful and kind in all of it. This is a lovely,reverberant response to the delicate image.
I love that last stanza! Wow!
I love the images you evoke, and that very powerful ending...a circle of meaning to match that daisy chain crown. Fabulous!
Oh if you get the wrong answer .. just pluck again.. there is a sense of hope in that.
Love.
This is how converts are made and also how chance shapes religions.
Have faith.
... love the question you pose at poem's end. Beautifully done, Margaret.
well done, Margaret ~
That opening is marvelous... don't get the answer you want you get a do over... nice
I am with Kerry, I love the ending. There are so many questions attached to a flower petal. Beautiful
What a vivid throwback to childhood's flower petal games of the heart.
oooh, i like that childish impetuousness... i'll be who you want me to be, just give me a hint. very nice!
Love that first stanza, so much. Well done.
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