I lost my wallet
Where's my keys
Help me find my cell phone please
Missed the deadline
Stood up my friend
Sorry to be late again
If it wasn't attached,
my grandpa said,
Surely you would lose your head
My head is here
but not my mind
Unattached and unconfined
It flitters, floats,
evades distress
Yet equally hides from success
I hunt myself
Straining to see
The ghost of all that I might be
I am the snare,
my bait regret--
And I am the empty net
I am the breeze
that swirls the sand
In patterns I can't understand
Perhaps half-here
is all I've got
But can I love the me I'm not?
Every trap
I ever set
Hooks something that I soon forget
I am the tangle
and the catch
the White Queen and the Bandersnatch
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Sonia Heidi Unruh
I love: my husband and children; all who claim me as family or friend; the first bite of chocolate; the last blue before sunset; solving puzzles; stroking cats; finding myself by writing; losing myself in reading; the Creator who is love.
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The metaphor of being both the snare and the net is stunning. So relatable and poetic.
Hiii Hellooo. I am new to your writing. --- 👛Starting with a bang, I see. I wouldn't like to be the one losing my wallet. Ooo, I could feel the anxiety bubbling up underneath the rhythm. 🧠'My head is here but not my mind' Love the clarity here 👌🏾 ' Yet equally hide from success' YES. This could not be more relatable. 🍃Oooo there goes the title line 🥰 'The breeze that swirls the sand.' That line buttered my bread for sure. 👏🏾 😵🤔'...Hooks something that I soon forget' very nice, very nice! 'The white Queen and the Bandersnatch' love it. Rhymes through till the end, fantastic work, Sonia 🤗❤️🖤
A/N on the Wonderland references in the last line, in case you are curious (and curiouser): https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/alice-in-wonderland-looking-glass/white-queen.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandersnatch