used to brag about wearing
kid-sized shoes, as if tiny
was akin to worthy. today
my heel exploded, hornet
angry, stung. i’m rabbit
snared, lion thorned, bigger
and bigger and bigger.
ballooning, blossoming
toward madness, spinning
like teacups, too tall for this
ride, let me off. off, off…
*72/100: For the next 100 days, I’ll be writing and posting a poem every day. All photos are mine.
Mad tea party is my favorite ride at Disneyland/world.
Just saying.
🤗
You like all that spinning, huh? I think I might of used to, but now I’m wanting things to be a bit more in control. But also, it is the Mad Hatter….so…maybe I need to embrace it.
Might not like it so much these days.
Ouch!
Indeed! Been a tough week.
What a powerful and wonderfully unsettling poem! The transformation from proudly wearing “kid-sized shoes” to feeling like a “rabbit / snared” and a “lion thorned” captures so vividly the sudden experience of becoming too much—too large, too overwhelmed, too aware.
Thank you for the kindness.
The poem is a magnificent metaphor of kid’s shoes shrinking smaller and smaller for the wearer.
Aww, thanks! Glad you liked it.
Up, up, and away! 😀
Take me to Oz!
I love this! The rhythm of the poem almost feels like a balloon popping. Was that intentional?!
And the ending is a solid one!
It sort of was, but I’m glad it came across. Thank you!!!
You’re so welcome!
I love how you took this charged moment and made it a poem. Really “good on ya!”
Aww, thank you! We are headed in the home stretch and I have mixed feelings about the successfulness of this project for me. Maybe too early to tell yet.
Me too on the mixed feelings, but mostly positive. Many times I would not have written anything at all if not for this challenge.
Same. I guess challenges are designed to keep us writing and processing. Not sure how many of these are workable for the book though, but I suppose that’s a problem for another day.
I plan to rework some. I’m thinking chapbook, self-published. Or just submit a few here and there.
I love that! You should totally do that.