Look within- the books say
Look up to the heavens, say the priests
Look to your feet, says the guru
Look in the mirror- says your face
There may be a snake
with poison fangs
or a badger
teeth bared and claws at the ready
Waiting
Decaying skeletons
a bony finger of truth
poised
There may be buried treasure
coins buried long ago
set aside
for the day you forgot them
Wrapped in dusty calico
in a disintegrating shoe box
folded in the dated newspaper
of the day you buried
this Pandora's Box
the best and worst part of you
For other poems made for the weekly pic, click HERE
Look up to the heavens, say the priests
Look to your feet, says the guru
Look in the mirror- says your face
There may be a snake
with poison fangs
or a badger
teeth bared and claws at the ready
Waiting
Decaying skeletons
a bony finger of truth
poised
There may be buried treasure
coins buried long ago
set aside
for the day you forgot them
Wrapped in dusty calico
in a disintegrating shoe box
folded in the dated newspaper
of the day you buried
this Pandora's Box
the best and worst part of you
For other poems made for the weekly pic, click HERE
9 comments:
sounds like a box you def do not want to open...the best and worst of you is a good thing to know though...
Snakes and badgers and skeletons...oh my! We all have those old shoe boxes...
Pandora's Box ... love it!
Interesting to think of the vast quantity of fascinating material lost, forever, in buried boxes...
So much to learn by looking...I think I would have to go there.
=)
i really like this....thanks for sharing
Wonderful imagary, full of possibilities...great job.
life is one big puzzle
depth of field
I think I might have to look...
Anna :o]
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