If Fairies Wear Boots And Dance With Dwarfs Then Pixies Wear Pumps And Carry Purses

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Thoreau

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on a one-way, paranoia trip through what's left of my smoke-filled mind

i pull down the creaky, acidic, attic stairs and softly ascend

to the claustrophobic corners and darkest recesses

amidst cobwebs and dead spiders

i see things i could never have imagined

they say that fairies wear boots and dance with dwarfs

i heard and saw that along with pixies in pumps carrying purses

chasing away life's ills like an army of nurses

their wings, how they did glisten

i guess there's something for everyone

we just have to know where to look and how to listen

Author's Note

"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." - Thoreau

Reviews

[WGSHASSERE]

I liked this piece. Thought provoking and well done. I would have gotten the same reading experience if you had started your poem with second paragraph “I pulled down ……….” Let the reader image where the door was located. Thanks

[Pete]

good suggestion that i will take you up on and reverse the first two lines. thanks for sharing thoughts and constructive critique. keep well.

[Pete]

oh, i see now. reversing the entire paragraphs.

[WGSHASSERE]

You got it.

[Pete]

thanks, i'll have to mull that over a bit.

[Samuel Dickens]

Since drug use in the Navy would get you kicked out, I played this song/album while guzzling beer too many times to count. The notion of faeries wearing boots always seemed a bit humorous to me, but that didn't mess up the badassed rock n roll vide at all. I like that army of nurses. Nurses are NICE. Entertaining piece, Pete.

[Pete]

boy, you really do have a story for everything! a very creative song for sure - one that i grew up listening to and reminds me of youthful times. the idea of fairies wearing boots and dancing with dwarfs is so surreal and fascinating to the mind if we dare let it go there. thank you for the great share samuel.

[Betty Hermelee]

love the description Pete, but you must have been high on something to see in your mind's eye those faeries with boots and and dancing with dwarfs.... great imagination...something for everyone!!! well done
Warmly, B

[Pete]

thanks b. inspired by the accompanying song which was supposedly written about a high experience.

[Betty Hermelee]

You're very welcome Pete
Warmly, B

[Pete]

are you back home in nc?

[Betty Hermelee]

no, not yet, still no power and water…. we are in NY at our apt…. may be here for a while🌷

[Lisasview]

Hey there dear Pete,
This could easily be a wonderful poem for a child's book... not to say it isn'y marvellous for all...young and old... but again extra special for a child... whimsical...
You have a wonderful imagination my friend,
Lisa

[Pete]

hmm, interesting thought. some people have told me that before. thank you lisa.

[Lisasview]

Really, other people Pete...so you might want to think about it...
Lisa

[Yoli]

i think "acidic, attic stairs" will linger long in my mind in their citrus smell of rotting wood.
It has such a sensory impact, and in my personal read, it casted the whole poem with its evocative power of decay (sweet sweet).

[Pete]

the seemingly unreachable corners of the mind. do we dare go there to discover and learn?

[emmajoygreen]

What you can paint with your mind, you can touch with your fingers? Your words whisper loudly, Pete.

[Pete]

quite true indeed. the hands and heart wish to grasp and feel that which the mind summons.

[emmajoygreen]

So it's said and - exactly as said.

[Ken Simm.]

Extraordinary. Whimsical and sometime serious. Couched in just the right language.

[Pete]

sounds like you found it all friend. thank you kindly for sharing.

[Tumi]

perfect imagery, very good

[Pete]

thank you kindly.

[Davidgeo]

Nice work.

That's a good song too. Good for the season.

[Pete]

thanks. one of my favorite songs that i've always liked.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

if we dare to search among the cobwebs and dead spiders, our imagination can find so many things we never dreamed possible.
I want to visit this attic in person...since you describe it so well in poem.

[Pete]

the human mind is remarkable, complex thing. medical science continues to learn of its intricacies and has only scraped the surface. thank you for sharing thoughts jacob.