10/25/08_Poem by Betina Hershey RussoOh, I'm gonna burst
Up and out and all over the place
With journal pages falling
Like rose petals and dandelion seeds
Softly through the air
And with legs like jack-in-the-box springs
And arms like tornadoes
Lifting everyone in my path
Up and away into my love!
Oh yeah, I'm gonna bounce
Ideas off of mountains and moons,
And Shakespeare verses off of giants
With rascally beards.
Big saggy blue chair.
Wind chimes in the distance.
Traffic street hum.
A light breeze.
Everywhere around me - boxes.
Boxes of clothes, boxes of books
Boxes waiting to be filled
With the items of my life's collection.
Me? I am not boxed in,
Shut down, covered up!
I am silently, motionlessly
Bursting.
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