Shawn L. Bird

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poem-kindle November 10, 2014

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 3:46 pm
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Under your skin

you’re kindling dreams.

Letting just enough

hope gleam through the ash.

Your head says,

“You can’t.

It won’t be,”

But the kindling dreams

wonder,

“Why

not

me?”

 

18 Responses to “poem-kindle”

  1. righteousbruin9 Says:
    November 10, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    I lived through thirty years of “Not me. Can’t be”. My angel changed a lot of that, and when she left us, it was all up to me. I’m doing my darnedest to live the dream.

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  2. syl65 Says:
    November 10, 2014 at 4:06 pm

    Turn the heat up and go for it all! Thanks Shawn 🙂

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  3. dancingpalmtrees Says:
    November 10, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    My Dreams even when pushed to the side, ignored, and sidelined forever keep knocking on the door and arise from the ashes of neglect prompting me to try again.

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  4. thankfulgirl20 Says:
    November 10, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    I love this. Wow.

    Reply
  5. georgiakevin Says:
    November 10, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    Your poetry has such warmth that it brings you to it even in th beginning but as you your reader reads further it bursts into a wonderful roaring fire. It’s almost as if you begin your poems with a little bit of fat lighter.

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    • Shawn L. Bird Says:
      November 10, 2014 at 4:58 pm

      lol
      Well, the goal (as I explain to my students) is to lull the reader into a comfortable place and then punch them in the gut.
      And of course, you can’t do that EVERY time or they know it’s coming.
      It’s a little bit like Charlie Brown, Lucy, and that football.

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  6. toad2014 Says:
    November 10, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    Interesting Mrs. Bird….

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  8. Vee dC Says:
    November 11, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    This should be pinned on an insecure writer’s vision board! 🙂

    Reply

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