Me, telling stories at 10 months
Fifth of seven, all girls, I was born
Telling tales.
Far enough to duck rules
For first, middle, or last,
I grabbed place
To be me
And held on
Talking fast.
As what shouldn’t be
Grew
And real life wove
Impossible,
Words remained
Nonetheless
In my soul
In my brain,
To be clasped
And sustain
Life and joy
Times again.
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🙂 Thank you, dear Adele!
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Lovely post, from on of six sisters. Sisters are the best. 🙂
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Yay, another sister-multiple! 🙂
Yes, sisters are THE best!
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Sisters, you gotta love them. I am always thankful for them. They keep me sane, although we are spread across the country. 👱♀️👩👨🏫👨🏫👸👩🏫
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Yeah, they keep me sane and they keep my laughing, even though we’re often times across seas and oceans from each other, when we do get together, it is SISTERS’ TIME! 🙂 (and in the meanwhile, there’s Whatsapp…) 🙂
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Brave Girl 🙂 TS
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🙂 Stubborn, some might say … 😉
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So happy you could post your lovely thoughts for Sunday Stills, Na’Ama! Been missing your poems! How cool to recognize yourself as a storyteller in youth and as an adult!
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Thanks, Terri.
I’ve always loved this photo for how accurately it portrays me from ions ago to these days … telling stories and observing humanity’s interactions from then on to now … 🙂
Not all of it was easy (well, a lot wasn’t) but all of it is fodder for life and stories and an inner thrumming of language as a way to express it. I wouldn’t change a thing! (Well, those chubby cheeks and thighs, though, I do miss them sometimes … Oh well, I guess SOME things must change with time … 😉 )
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Fifth of six here – enjoyed this.
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Yay to the power of the fifths!!! 🙂
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