Just Floating

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A hydrozoan is a water animal with a saclike body consisting of two layers of cells and a mouth that opens directly into the body cavity.

In my next life I plan to be a hydrozoan.
Living in the water, floating aimlessly.
No thoughts, no feelings. 
No muse bugging me with new poetry ideas.
No muse annoying me unmercifully 
Screaming in my dreams, 
Begging me to get up at 3:21 a.m. to write poems!
Just floating away,
A happy little hydrozoan,
Carefree and silent.
No dreams.
Just floating…..

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Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 8/1/2019 3:38:00 AM

Many poets are tortured souls Caren. The mind often will not shut off and keeps us awake at all hours. We just can't sleep until we grab that pen and pad and write out what our muse is nagging us to write down. I can certainly relate my friend. I loved this poem. xxoo

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/1/2019 9:49:00 AM

Thank you Connie. I was in a real lazy mood when I wrote this.

Rhona Mcferran

Date: 7/31/2019 8:40:00 PM

That sounds lovely... but methinks I'll be a water bear! ;D

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/1/2019 9:50:00 AM

A water bear - that is my grandson's favorite animal!

Kurt Ravidas

Date: 7/31/2019 2:30:00 PM

Sweet protozoans, that's about me! Alas, it's impossible. If you're a human, it's hard, damn hard to become an animal again. Not to mention a hydrozoan. But if you somehow succeed, you have to live minimum 500 lives in an animal's body before you'll have a chance to become human again. It's easier to become a god, I think)

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/1/2019 9:51:00 AM

I think I could do it; I am pretty in tune with animals, being one myself, just posing part-time as a human.