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on sunny days
I look up into the bowl of sky and strike a pose I might wonder who or what billion-mile eye is looking down at me the balcony I sit in that narrow little edge of space suspended under a ledge so small (yet perhaps just wide enough...) to offer little protection from a billion-mile stare above me are flying cameras launched thoughtlessly, thoughtfully above the earth could they peer here would some keen observer manipulate Google earth to find me here? I'm the human bird singing her songs face planted skyward gathering vitamin D and a universe of freckles while imagining the eyes and distant stars above her do I sing for and fly with all of the birds near and not surrounding me do I dream of other worlds of prying eyes and far-flung possibilities and so much so that while I sing and close my eyes I donate my best billion-watt grin and then a little eye-twitch and a raised right brow which is my wink an answering "hello and how are you?" for anyone checking in someone whose life has been lived in the distances too whether they exist in my inner space or outerspace or material or faded-gone-long-ago but memory-made-indelible if there's a heaven the universal eye might click back an answer to my question momentarily the sun will seem to hide behind a sheltering cloud closing like a shutter striking my pose as once again I turn my face upwards and smile so very wide I meet the stars... LEGAL COPYRIGHT FOR THIS POEM WRITTEN STRAIGHT TO THE PAGE 5:15AM PST 3/17/2022 TIME AND DATE STAMPED ON THIS 2022'S ST PADDY'S DAY AND ALSO FOR THIS POET/WRITER MELISSA A. HOWELLS AND ALSO FOR THIS LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED AND LEGALLY REGISTERED SITE TITLE: MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD ** I WOKE UP WITH THESE THOUGHTS AFTER A PRESCIENT DREAM............... Vote for this poem |
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