"Those were hard things for me to come by, and I offer them to you for what they may be worth." - Toby Wolff



Thursday, August 30, 2012

Tripping Up




We forget to look up,
focused as we are on the path
and how we might trip.

Ahhhh...
but even so doing,
our clumsiness comes to the rescue
and us now, flat on our backs.

Suddenly
we are outside the box of our feet
and the whole world
is a cushioned place
without border.
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23 comments:

  1. So true! To look up is to escape this crazy earth. A beautiful, amazing poem, my Annie. I love you, my gorgeous friend. xoxo

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    1. I love that Marion! To look up is to escape the earth. And I want to say something negative about looking down, but remember all those strange one word notes I kept finding everywhere? Well...I don't know where to look exactly, but it made for a good poem :) Love you too. Stay dry storm friend.

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  2. One of my favorite positions from which to take a photograph. Things look so different that way - a bit more wondrous, somehow. Maybe it's because that's the way we used to look so often as a child?


    P.S. Looking cute, Annie! ☺

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    1. I still like watching the clouds and letting my imagination form them into creatures. You look up often in your photos I have noticed. It's a good practice I think!

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  3. Is this you, Annie? If so, you are adorable!

    Yup, I like how you did this :). I have a friend who assures me my divorce and loss of world I planned was the floor falling away and it did. but I like your idea of being on a path. I was so afraid I would fail as I stumbles to regain my balance. The final lines of this piece is beautiful and it is what I have found to be true. The borders (some self imposed) fell away and their have been many cushioned places to fall along my way. I believe you are emerging from the box :). xxamy

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    1. Yeah, it's me. It's the head of the feet picture in Dulling The Edge. I'm like the woman who got her head and hands cut off in the magicians box.

      I actually wrote this poem while thinking about a co-worker who came to work sicker than a dog, and still got berated for not being on top of things while she was home in bed the previous day. I wanted to say something encouraging. This is what came out :)

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  4. I read this at such a moment. Timing is everything. I’m searching now for the stakes, the lines hiding in the geography to know where I am. Where are the fences that made this easier.
    Enjoyed very much…

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    1. You are actually looking for borders then...boundaries that make it all safe and tidy :) I'm not sure if I should wish them for you, but I wish you peace....peace enough to look around and figure it all out.

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  5. i turned my laptop upside down to see you. then i smiled back. it really is nice to see you.

    so you're saying when a person falls they get to look up to a vast padded world. you mean i don't have to worry about falling? well, that's changes my plans :^)

    always nice to be here when you post, annie.

    xoxo
    kj

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  6. Ah Annie, you look awesome! The world looks different when you accept things ... trips and falls are painful experiences but truly the world seems somehow changed when we stop looking at our feet the whole time. Big BIG hug and sorry for the Looooooong absenses. Life, you know? xx Jos

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  7. This is a great reminder that a change in perspective can always bring gifts. Thanks.

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  8. I missed your poems, Annie. Thanks for another one!

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    1. Thanks Ben. I feel like my poems are arrows in the dark lately...shot without purpose or execution. And they are more rare. I've not much left with which to give or take. But it's okay. I paddle through and amazingly, you are all still here in the wake :)

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  9. Ha!!!! I did the same thing as KJ. Spooky. xx

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    1. Darn the two of you! SERIOUSLY, I was hoping no one would do that. I look better upside down. A side of the brain takes over that makes the bad stuff fade into the background. I thought..."Don't be stupid Annie. No one is going to take the time to turn that photo around." ARRRRGH! That makes two of you buggers!" Now quit it!

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  10. Annie,
    It so happens to be that i'm reminded of how i have forgotten to look up anymore...3 4 years back i used to sit on the roof of my room..it was the biggest space in which i never felt alone...now inside an office....with 100 people breathing in that same space i can feel it....i'll look up tonight...maybe we'll meet somewhere along that axis...

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    1. I'm glad I reminded you to do something positive. There is the moon Manik. We both share it, though the hour shifts like chiffon. I will look up and see you perched there. You will look and see me hanging. Space. It is the axis.

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  11. i did it again. na na na na na. and i'll bet jos did too.

    so there, miss cutie pie!

    :^)

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    1. ARRRRGH! I'm gonna take that picture down if you don't stop spinning it!

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  12. What do you see when you close your eyes!

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  13. girl, what is going on? every picture i see of you lately, you look younger and younger and younger. you also look lighter. happier.
    am i right? cause i see it. even if you don't.

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    1. It is the trick of your eyes, not the play of my mirror. I age daily, as the world does....with regret and no power. I really do not want to grow old. I have not as yet been, a child.

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