Songs of Unreason by Jim Harrison is the source for 28 Days of Unreason. 28 astounding lines of poetry become writing prompts. Here is today’s line by Harrsion and my response entitled Fusion.
“We were born to be moving water not ice” ~ Jim Harrison
FUSION
When the blue is missing
I ask my cold
February self
for a map to
July
that I
I
might speed up
the molecules
thawing
returning to the
blue back-
floating
swallowing the sky
whole
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A beautiful one just like the quote!
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Thank you, Jeren!
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There’s so many little pockets in this poem, it would take me ages to explore them all. Also, my Mum likes this poem 😁
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Thank you, my friend! And ‘Hi!’ to your Mum 🙂
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Yup, it’s all about that backfloat staring up at the sky. But were the Midwest winters so cold growing up that even years later, you are frozen in Florida? Rhetorical question alert. I’ve been to MN in February. That all said, the poem is nice, smooth, easy on the reader, yet takes us along for some molecular excitement!
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I hear that MN in February is brutal. I grew up in the land of lake-effect snow and really should write a poem about that one night when the blizzard caught the screen door and took me for a ride. 🙂
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Ah, so you are MI bred. That sounds like a great poem idea. Swept Away.
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Good title! Time to muse.
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Winter provides cool change, but it pushes us to the edge of nonexistence if it lasts too long. It is the blue that seems missing in winter. Too much gray.
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Oh! The edge of nonexistence – great way to put it, Frank!
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I love your idea of there being a map to July. Maybe it’s a good thing there isn’t. Nobody would ever leave.
Thanks for the prompt. I used the quote as inspiration for the dverse trimetre poem.
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/i-would-be-water-flowing-fast/
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I am so glad! I’ll be working to get caught up on my reading soon. Thanks for joining in, Jane 🙂
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I’m terribly behind too. Can’t keep up with the prompts never mind visit other blogs!
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Yep – everyone is just poetry exploding right now! Love it 😉
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I wish I had a week when the world has stopped turning for everybody else, just to catch up!
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I know that feeling! That’s why I drop back when life is busy, or just take time off.
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Love the map to July and that blue back floating.
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🙂
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