Saturday, February 12, 2011

Just Down the Street

Just down the street there is a house
with one window
that looks like an eye that never sleeps.

I walk by it everyday
on my way home from school.

I imagine the people
who live there
have one eye too.

But not like a Cyclops.

I imagine them like pirates
with eye patches, and crooked smiles
with yellowed teeth.

I walk on the other side of the street
afraid of who might see
my imagination
hiding behind the tree.


This is for Magpie #52, thanks for another flight of fancy, Willow. Please check out this awesome writer's blog,
http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2011/02/mag-52.html

7 comments:

  1. ..'imagination hiding behind the tree' - great line!

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  2. yes! wonderful poem...very visual...in my mind's eye! (...and so, i had to read it again...with one eye closed...and it was even more fantastical!)

    ((thanks for wandering through my little part of nature...)) :] laura

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  3. What a flight of fancy! I loved your verse.

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  4. Yes . . not many responses used the tree.

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  5. your imagination hides behind the tree?

    wow, love the imagery, well penned poetry.
    you rock!

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  6. What a delightful read! Like a child in fear passing a house, having heard of the mysterious owners from an elder!

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