if i listen

if i listen

A Chapter by Lyn Anderson
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random (maybe not so random) thoughts

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poor froggie,
tries to burrow
under the rocks.

my kitchen table
is cold
compared to Africa.

i listen,
but he no longer
speaks to me.

except
in my disjointed
dreams

where i am swallowed
by all the things
i have yet to do.


© 2018 Lyn Anderson


Author's Note

Lyn Anderson
ever felt overwhelmed by all the stuff you have to do?


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Ohhh Nice To Convert Thought Into Poem

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

Thank you for popping in.
Sikandar Khan

7 Years Ago

Its my pleasure
what I love about you...everything is simple and true to form, an African frog trying to hide, is how I often feel myself...overwhelming when I think of morning some, then I brush it way with gratitude that there might be another morning...

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

Thank you. As different as we are alike ...:)
Corset

7 Years Ago

lovely like that :)
This froggie never turned into a prince I take it?
I like this.

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

Nope. The froggie is alive and well in a bowl on my kitchen table.
Papaya

7 Years Ago

oh, and here I am once again thinking every frog in every poem you write is a prince charming candid.. read more
Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

nope, only the ones with dirt on their boots ...lol
Great line KL!

Swallowed by activity. I had a similar experience with the forest.

Regards,
Al

Posted 7 Years Ago


Alfred Kukitz

7 Years Ago

Thanks! If you don't mind I'm kissing your sweet lips!
Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

Whatever floats your boat, hon. I do believe I shall switch to pink soon.
Alfred Kukitz

7 Years Ago

Hoota Hotta!
Varied thoughts, but always worthy of a poem. Life is too filled up with "stuff" to do sometimes. Our thoughts run the gambit....and we ARE swallowed up by responsibility. Always a pleasure, KL. Lydi**

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

You have it. Thanks for hopping in
He'll never make prince if he keeps hiding unless he only wants to be prince of your dreams.
I hope it's not the frog out of the joke about the library in which he was handed book after book and he just kept saying 'reddit, reddit!'

I enjoyed my first KL Goode read. Thank you for posting.
:)

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

Thank you for reading and reviewing.
Tony Jordan

7 Years Ago

My pleasure.
this particularly speaks volumes to me:
"my kitchen table
is cold
compared to Africa."
and who hasn't been harried in the course of living .. while ice fishing all by myself on a pretty remote little pond .. as i hovered over the hole my thoughts slowly wound down and my self exclamation was; "Wow ... all that noise of the city was inside my own head" ... hmmmmmmmm! ;) i like this poem KL. its so everyday living with grace and poetry added :)
E.

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

the original thought was inspired by a poem by hd rushin -- whose work I find similar to yours in m.. read more
Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

Looking through the poems I have a bit of a froggie obsession -- one entitled "Musings of a boiled f.. read more
Einstein Noodle

7 Years Ago

you are the best Lips! i will make sure i have read them all :) i was sitting by our outdoor fire pi.. read more
burrowing to avoid facing the truth...whether they are words, or feelings....like two people who know it's over but don't want to hurt each other by expressing the words..they know the frog relationship is not going to turn into a prince of one...

j.

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

I like your take. Although in this case the anxiety is a little more generalized, it definitely coul.. read more
PS made me think of the Rod Stewart song 'I don't Want to Talk About It'...."I don't want to talk about it, how you broke my heart. If I stay here just a little bit longer,
If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart, whoa, heart?"

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

nice song.
If random means thoughtless I fear not in your head 'M'. Free association perhaps? As Redzone aptly puts it it feels as if the protagonist is hiding from some duty/chore and of course 'the kitchen table' would be cold as Africa as it is an isolated place when one needs to get up and get on with it. Consumed perhaps by memories of loss or memories of something best forgotten which when dwelt upon cause inertia.

Posted 7 Years Ago


Lyn Anderson

7 Years Ago

oh, thanks. definitely procrastinating. Watching the African dwarf frog try to burrow

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