Bread Crumbs

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These are my bread crumbs, scattered on the brumous trail should I ever turn around to view the path I've traveled and see only a myriad of trees. These are my bread crumbs. I drop them knowing full well they may be eaten by ravenous rodents and raccoons who perceive the value of bread crumbs differently than I do. These are my bread crumbs - carefully marking the whens and wheres of my life, though I know your path will be elsewhere and you will mark it as you see fit. These poems are my bread crumbs. written 9 June 2016

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Christuraj Alex

Date: 9/14/2022 3:56:00 AM

May the bread crumbs of your writings, together with showing you the paths you have traveled, together with feeding rodents and raccoons proceed on marking your life. Great metaphor. Congratulations!

John Watt
Date: 3/16/2023 10:06:00 AM

Thank you, my friend. Our words are like an atlas of where we've been; both for us to remember and for others to know us better. Best wishes avoiding the raccoons!

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 5/2/2020 6:38:00 PM

I love the metaphor in this, and so apt - when we look back, we can see the maps of our lives marked (in this case) by our trails of words-

John Watt
Date: 5/2/2020 7:32:00 PM

Thank you for another kind word. I probably lean toward the cliché in writing so often about writing. Oh well. I guess that's a label I'm willing to wear, haha! What's your honest opinion, should I spell it when's and where's, or whens and wheres? ~ John

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/29/2016 11:26:00 PM

wow, what an amazing poem this is, John. Love this metaphor for life and poetry. FAVE

John Watt
Date: 1/21/2020 11:48:00 PM

I just realized I never responded to your heartwarming comment in 2016! I don't know if you will ever see this, but I hope you know your encouragement means more than I can say, my friend. Thank you.

Joanna Daniel

Date: 6/20/2016 4:32:00 AM

A nice metaphor for poems:) How valuable these bread crumbs turn out to be!!!

John Watt
Date: 6/20/2016 5:40:00 PM

...especially for those of us who are inclined to forget our life lessons and have to relearn them! Thanks for the read, Jo. God bless ~ John

Josefina Costales

Date: 6/9/2016 7:34:00 PM

An imaginative concept of how poems are truly the bread crumbs poets drop on the path of life.

John Watt
Date: 6/9/2016 8:55:00 PM

Thanks Josefina!