Saturday, August 30, 2014

"The Ultimatum"

Blue Muse Art - Etsy Shop  Photographic art by Kelly Letky
The Ultimatum

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'
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19 comments:

  1. Lisa GordonAugust 30, 2014 at 9:32 PM

    As always, this is just wonderful, Margaret, and Kelly's photograph is really beautiful.

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  2. HannahAugust 30, 2014 at 9:55 PM

    Beautiful choice to write to, Margaret and you've brought an added emotive depth to this, too...nicely rendered. :)

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  3. AnonymousAugust 31, 2014 at 12:28 AM

    What a powerful ending. And I love the opening too:
    "I tempt fate
    with childish pluckings"

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  4. Kerry O'ConnorAugust 31, 2014 at 1:57 AM

    Ah! This is simply lovely. I love the final thought. Love is its own religion.

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  5. Sumana RoyAugust 31, 2014 at 3:47 AM

    i like the innocence, playfulness and the sweet anxiety leading to deeper thoughts here...a lovely write :)

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  6. FireblossomAugust 31, 2014 at 9:15 AM

    There may a lot more truth than you intended, in that last line!

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  7. GraceAugust 31, 2014 at 9:25 AM

    Which way to be, such a crossroad for innocents ~ I hope he or she chooses well ~

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  8. hedgewitchAugust 31, 2014 at 12:17 PM

    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.

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  9. Maude LynnAugust 31, 2014 at 1:09 PM

    I love that last stanza! Wow!

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  10. mrs mediocrityAugust 31, 2014 at 1:52 PM

    I love the images you evoke, and that very powerful ending...a circle of meaning to match that daisy chain crown. Fabulous!

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  11. brudbergAugust 31, 2014 at 3:34 PM

    Oh if you get the wrong answer .. just pluck again.. there is a sense of hope in that.

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  12. SusanAugust 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM

    Love.
    This is how converts are made and also how chance shapes religions.
    Have faith.

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  13. HelenAugust 31, 2014 at 8:55 PM

    ... love the question you pose at poem's end. Beautifully done, Margaret.

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  14. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2014 at 1:45 AM

    well done, Margaret ~

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  15. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2014 at 5:12 PM

    That opening is marvelous... don't get the answer you want you get a do over... nice

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  16. Susie ClevengerSeptember 1, 2014 at 5:23 PM

    I am with Kerry, I love the ending. There are so many questions attached to a flower petal. Beautiful

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  17. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2014 at 7:26 PM

    What a vivid throwback to childhood's flower petal games of the heart.

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  18. MarianSeptember 2, 2014 at 6:44 AM

    oooh, i like that childish impetuousness... i'll be who you want me to be, just give me a hint. very nice!

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  19. De JacksonSeptember 2, 2014 at 5:41 PM

    Love that first stanza, so much. Well done.

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