death defying, leaping unbound
Caught up in your hummingbird throat
Warbling and swallowing my heart like a dying fish to a swarm of locusts
Bear trapped, my soul is waterlogged and plentiful to quench your pain
A salve that quiets the unending sorrows
You ask a trapped bear for a cup of sugar
To soften the bitterness of
Disarming into survival mode
For a heavy moment
You freeze and wait
Breath abated
Leaking too much fresh oxygen into my dying lungs
Bear trapped in deep foliage
Deer brings me water, fresh and cold from the fast moving stream
Deer leaps like a newborn
Free and unbound
From what may have been a ghost prison of their own making
Longing for a better trap
Longing for
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About the Creator
Melissa Ingoldsby
I am a published author on Patheos,
I am Bexley by Resurgence Novels
The Half Paper Moon on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.
My novella Carnivorous will be published by Eukalypto
& Atonement will be released this August by JMS Books
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Comments (4)
I found the ending of this both sad and optimistic - Nicely done!
Fascinating imagery, leaving me unbalanced & unsure. I have no idea what this is about but I'm bound to ponder it for a while.
This may not be what you intended for readers to get from this poem but it made me think of the the saying, the grass is always greener on the other side. Your poem was extremely emotional!
writing is excellent.