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The Other Side

My child, a baptism took place when you jumped into the river for my sake—Ringo Bing

Just like her favorite character Alice she dresses
A young girl named Cassy sits bored by a riverbank
She looks into reflecting waters twirling her long tresses

A giant ladybug hanging onto a twig, has fallen and sank
Cassy jumps in, pulls with all her might on its wing
The ladybug's wing tears from all the water it drank

Swept up, she is thrown onto the ladybug with a fling
Flown far from the river, the ladybug thanks her for saving him
I’ll call you my young fair Alice, and you can call me Ringo Bing

Cassy admits to the current identity crisis she is in, one of seven
Ringo struck, by her inability to remember a poem of Alice’s adventures
He offers her a key and whispers, fits a door to the other side, heaven

Blurry swishes of gardens and trees, Ringo lands, fixes his wing and dentures
The door! In a panic realizes the key is lost, the one she’s clung to forever
Wormholes, galaxies, beaming showers, black holes, she now censures

Never needing the key at all the picture is clear, she sees stars of silver
The key a crutch, has held her back from the flow of the river

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Lady Labyrinth Date: 7/22/2022 6:05:00 PM Beautiful. Resonant. Login to Reply I Am Anaya Date: 7/22/2022 6:39:00 PM I'm glad you found it moving and significant. Thank you for your wonderful comment! ~Anaya

Linda Alice Fowler Date: 7/15/2022 7:55:00 AM Love this Anaya. Great entry for the contest. Your poems are always interesting as well as creative! Nice form, and I like the accompanying picture. Linda Login to Reply I Am Anaya Date: 7/18/2022 2:17:00 PM Thank you, Linda. I appreciate your encouraging comments! ~Anaya

Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/14/2022 12:55:00 PM A very creative take on the contest . . Anaya, I don't know what's up but I was not even able to respond to your blog. Again, my computer must hate your system. Let's see if this comment even goes through Login to Reply I Am Anaya Date: 7/18/2022 2:13:00 PM Thank you for the encouraging comment, Andrea. I may have edited at the same time. My blog is down. I'll keep you posted. ;)

Victor Buhagiar Date: 7/12/2022 1:37:00 AM Very imaginative poem. A pleasure to read. Login to Reply I Am Anaya Date: 7/12/2022 12:28:00 PM It's a privilege to hear this from a fine poet. Victor, thank you!

Valsa George Date: 7/11/2022 9:21:00 PM Your imagination is soaring into heights with Cassy and Ring to see galaxies and stars of silver! I love lady bugs and want to write a poem on them. Really enjoyed your flights of fancy, dear Anaya ! All the Best in the contest ! Login to Reply I Am Anaya Date: 7/12/2022 12:25:00 PM Ringo is a male ladybug, as I say laughingly. But the male is still called a ladybug in my research. Please correct me if I am wrong. No gender crisis here! ha, thanks Valsa!