From Robert Lee Brewer's blog, Poetic Asides, "For today’s prompt, write a follow _____ poem."
Follow ______
Follow what you cannot see:
the way your heart beats twice as fast
when love comes knocking at your door,
the way it sticks inside your throat
to let you feel its presence in uncertainty,
the way some people wear it on their sleeves
when truth and openness are desired.
Perhaps I should have simply said
follow your heart.
Often it feels that we live in a shape-shifting world where things appear and disappear, only to reappear in a different form or place. Although they cannot be seen nor quantified, things of the heart remain solid and true.
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Christina Perry
Christina is a traveler, a dreamer and a poet. Her writing is often influened by her work as a speech-language pathologist in Northern Manitoba with First Nations peoples.
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