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NOTE:thoughts by Dilly Dally-form by me

A Contest Collaboration In Open Form

a beach ball stuck 
   in the rafters of the pool
it's been there 
for the 7 years
 I've been coming here

 It contains air 
     from the lungs
 of an unknown person
 an essence 
that rests here 
as though they never left 
 
 I wonder of all the places
     I've left pieces of me
caught sight of 
     but unknown
 & recalled gently

 my presence has never left 
but 
I never returned

it's similar
with a long lost friend 
who has a memory 
or 
an item I made
 a saying or dance 
I embodied
 they kept 

 some others
I'd like to ask 
  - who was I 
in that moment of my life

  such fragments 
are more than the air 
I breathed 
on an
 unremembered day

 perhaps  
such are
the reason people smile 
holding a memory
 in their hands
 & conjure back 
               as I oft do 
 small links
     to the long forgotten
 pieces of me 
of a someone
 who existed
                  ...then
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Rodrigues Avatar
August 14, 2023 at 4:37 PM
This contest peaked your interest, Brian! Congratulations on 3rd place! ..it’s been coming here for the seven years I’ve been here. You contemplate…we all leave pieces of ourselves behind.
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