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the bubbling place | Poetry Thursday

This week's prompt was Utopia, and I just happen to have a poem that suits:

the bubbling place

I have been here
on the shore
all night

the channel is filled
with sea creatures

dolphins
whales
manatee

they call to me

I grow wings
& the angel
shows me how to use them

I have been lost
swimming
for a long time

flamingos & fire lizards
play together in a forest
stripped of leaves

they lose their ball
& look for it
in the pelican's mouth

gulls & eagles & ravens fly
together in a great swarm
like bees

to the sea

  From Liz Elayne:

Please note that this will be the last organized edition of the Thursday "Traveling Poetry Show." A big thank you to Delia, Carolee, Jillypoet, and Tracie Lyn who hosted Thursday posts these last few weeks.

At this time, a new project will not be taking its place (though I have this secret dream that the traveling project will just keep going and going all by itself).  

This saddens me greatly. I hope that someone with the energy and skills will step forward, and that Liz Elayne will pass the site and the responsibility on. The site -- and the passion -- that she generated is too important to allow to fade --  and it has, inevitably, faded these past few weeks, in the absence of a place and a person to  shepherd us.

BloggersUnite | Poetry Thursday

Today is Blogging Against Abuse day, a Community Challenge from Blog Catalog. I have a poem that is appropriate for this challenge: The Therapist.

I am linking rather than posting for two reasons:

• This poem is written in long lines, and that format works much better at Oratory than it does here at Watermark.
• This poem deals graphically with the subject of sexual abuse/assault.  It is important that the reader be warned -- this can be a difficult and painful read for some folks.

This is also my Poetry Thursday post. Sadly, the topic for this week was Utopia, and my piece is anything but. Still, there it is.

From the Poetry Thursday site:

For the next few weeks, several Poetry Thursday participants will take turns hosting the Thursday post on their blogs. This week, please visit The Red Door Studio where you will be able to a) leave your comment linking to your Thursday post about poetry, b) find out next week’s prompt. Next Thursday's host will be Liz Elayne.