I’m stringing together words
connecting us like beads
winding threads
capturing beauty that flashes in the light
I’m stringing us tightly together
knotting now so we can
recreate this moment
when we fear we are unravelling.
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Shawn L. Bird 
Nice!
Thanks!
Knotting now so we can remember this moment..
So true, nonetheless with an algorithm to remove me from the net when i’m gone made by a dear friend…
I don’t do algorithms. Math department required!
❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻 again.. You continue to amaze me..
You’re sweet, Noorain!
Reblogged this on hobo univercity and commented:
as time goes on…
every poem is a monument – every moment is bead on the string of time
Indeed
like a rosary
your personal string theory ?
lol
beautifully done, thank you for sharing. A favourite necklace, precious in its gift and the memories evoked.
I’m glad you enjoyed it Ellen. Thanks for stopping by.
Leave a bit of the string to grab on, when the unraveling seems imminent.
Or to pull to speed the unravelling?
too good
Thank you, Sanchita!
I love beading metaphors and have been doing some writing with these ideas too. Will share with you one day.
I look forward to it!
Perhaps I can email it to you 😉
Or post a link here.
Maybe, have it at a competition so have to wait as I’m trying hard to get this one published somewhere other than my blog. But I will let you know what happens.
Ah. Got it.
I write separate ones to submit as well. Some don’t mind blogged work. Some do.
Yes, I always check, but also found some magazines that pay as well and so keen to have some payments for some work when I can. all the best Shawn.
🙂
I should actually read my Writers’ Market books, shouldn’t I? 😉
Haha, yes I have one of those, also compiling my own lists looking at Pacific and Commonwealth anthologies and magazines etc.
I have settled into comfort just posting here, but I have a growing desire to reach out to other audiences. I’m balancing full-time work, grad school studies, and daily writing along with sending the odd thing to my publisher. I’m hoping when the degree is finished I will have time to organize a submission plan and get onto sending things off!
I can relate to what you are saying here. The daily writing is vital to our craft, and reaching out on blogs is a great motivation to keep going, but also good to reach beyond that blog. I’d like to do more public performances again.
I haven’t done any in a while either, though of course, I regularly ‘perform’ and ‘present’ for my students! Modelling poetry presentation and narrative readings is part of my role as the English teacher/librarian.