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Don't love as if your map is reality

      A map's a guide to find a world

    Knitted by angels,plain or pearled,

    And though you need a map as guide,

    Keep your own eyes open wide.
   

    I spent a year caught in a map

    Until I found a big enough gap

    I crawled out through this exit slit,

    So here I am,like some half wit.
    

    Words can act like heroin,

    You live so high ,where I have been.

    But onto earth I gladly fall.

    The air, the sun, the rain is all.

    
    My senses are my lovers long-

    My ears,my eyes,my skin my tongue.

    The winds caress my naked flesh,

    To dwell on earth is all I wish.
    

    I'll live with mice and birds and plants,

    I'll share my food with miscreants

    I'll keep my words inside a tin;

    And only, now and then,go in.

    
    I'll live with cats and spiders three.

    And like a wild flower grow quite free.

    I' ll give my words to those who hear,

    And eventually I'll disappear

    
    Earth to earth then ash to ash

    When soaked with rain I shall disperse.

    My atoms wing like butterflies,

    And to the Flower I'll fly,disguised.
       
 
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  1. Date: 7/8/2012 4:12:00 PM

    Cool ending! Kathryn! Jimbo

    B. Avatar Katherine B. Date: 7/9/2012 1:02:00 AM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    Thank you,Jimbo
  1. Date: 6/28/2012 11:28:00 AM

    great write Kate

    B. Avatar Katherine B. Date: 7/9/2012 1:02:00 AM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    Thank you so much.
  1. Date: 6/28/2012 11:10:00 AM

    You are a brilliant poet Kate, thank you for sharing this with me. - oxox Anne-Lise

    B. Avatar Katherine B. Date: 6/28/2012 11:12:00 AM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    You are most welcome Anne-Lise.I am pleased you read it.
  1. Date: 6/28/2012 10:06:00 AM

    It has been a pleasure to read such a wonderful poem!! Lori

    B. Avatar Katherine B. Date: 6/28/2012 10:36:00 AM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    Thanks Lori,I am pleased you enjoyed that..it's definitely a danger for some of us to live in our minds all the time.