fleeting thoughts and butterfly nets

I borrowed someone else’s thoughts
and pinned them against a blank
sheet of paper

nothing sticks quite right the first
time so I gathered them together
and sealed them in a chrysalis
where they slowly evolved into
my own creation

(I tried returning the borrowed
thoughts to their original owners
but they all refused delivery)

new words gradually emerge
out of an abbreviated hibernation
and from there I cut and copy
and delete and tweet
and paste paste paste
all the way down easy street

but of course if it was easy
everyone would be doing it
running across backyards
and open fields
swinging butterfly nets
at their ever elusive thoughts

Reviews

[Alexx]

This is seriously one of the best poems I've ever read. You really got the imagery in my head! Thanks for sharing

[J Matthew Waters]

Thank-you for commenting on this poem, Alexx. Greatly appreciate your sentiment.