December 10 - dreambuzz #8327
a thistle in the eiderdowna spark in the roaster... a revelry of sparks as the field snakes lightit only takes a sea, to dip your brush... a prickle in your overcoat, to invent a bee
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actually, it should have been a revery of sparks, and maybe, a toaster I'm referencing myself with the thistle: the thing that eats the overcoat we call thistles but I do love nettles, as well
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Strange. We both used the word nettle in a poem last night. Nettle is a good word. I recall times running ditches with my dog hitting a patch. Baths never felt so good! Love the poem the last line of...
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Wave, i love that a nettle came up. love love love nettles. Terry, the nettles in your Buddha poem resonate for me Milarepa. I've written some poems about Milarepa, who subsisted and you could say,...
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yes, a lot. innumerable, with deep reverence. I've tried to copy paste an image, but it doesn't work on this notebook. Maybe I need a mouse
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As a kid I ran ditches and streambeds with my dog. Would get into nettle patches. You know you are alive when you hit a patch of nettles in shorts and no shirt--and in the beautiful sooth of a hot...
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Alison, I think we both wrote nettle at the same time without knowing it. I liked the poem with nettle in. I hope you didn't change it because of my comment above....
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the prickle was referencing the thistle... like the princess and the pea. The nettle was Wave's idea. I've put nettles in other poems, but for this, I was thinking "prickle". Also like the prickle...
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I don't know about nettle's curative powers. I just remember that one hot bath took care of the sting. I wonder if I put epsom salt in the water? Perhaps, it was the cure-all in our house when I was...
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