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My Earliest Memory: a Bee Sting

Buzzing around the sun
Green glistening with skin
As I finger-poke for fun
And bleed open my sin

Brother runs out from the shouts
Pouring peroxide on the prick
While in the mirror I see the doubts
Band-aid wrapping round to stick.

Memory fades from there
As hallways slip into darkness
The mind a wandering hare
The heart the harrowing lightness.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 10/16/2009 7:53:00 AM
Great poem about a childhood memory! Congratulations with this winner, and hope the stings in life have been little ones.! ~ Carrie
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Date: 10/16/2009 7:11:00 AM
Congratulations on your win in Danielle's contest Matt. Love, Carol
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Date: 6/15/2009 6:05:00 AM
Cute.enjoyed this piece and good luck in the contest
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Date: 6/14/2009 5:07:00 PM
Ooh, those be stings. Or wasps as it was for me. A whole swarm from undergrandma's porch when I jumped off into the grass... OW! Bee stings, my friend are unforgetable. Soup Mail, soon. Lovingly, Dane
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Date: 6/14/2009 2:08:00 PM
Interesting use of imagery for a thought provoking poem. Nice play on words in this last two lines. Keep on writing! Karen
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