I asked for stories.
There are plenty you said.
No, not those.
I want old stories.
I want stories of blood.
Where did things start?
Where am I from?
It doesn’t matter you said.
That was there,
we are here.
There’s nothing more to be told.
It’s not enough I said.
These are your stories too!
Don't you know them?
Can't you feel them?
I went out looking for a myth to adopt.
Instead, the myth hidden in my blood
adopted me.
adopted me.
Art used with kind permission of the artist: Dreaming by Amanda Clark
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Song Choice: Rainbow Connection
This poem was created from a prompt offered by Magaly Guerrero for NaPoWriMo (Day 12: Poems of alienation and detachment. Process note: Since I had so much fun writing from Yuuki's point of view, I wanted to write a bit from Ana's view as well. The topic fit so off I went. )
Wonderful! In the end we learn we need these to survive.
ReplyDeleteYes, they help us survive and thrive :)
DeleteLast stanza is awesome, perfect. I detect that rebellion and searching, not satisfied with the status quo and looking for something enlightening. Our eager brains drag us along.
ReplyDeleteI think once you start looking, there's no power in the 'verse that can stop us :)
DeleteAkha!
DeleteBrowncoats unite!!
No matter how much I find out about my ancestors...I search hungrily for more....love this poem :D XXX
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad there was that connection :)
DeleteIndeed, we write our own myths and then become those myths, for our children.
ReplyDeleteMyth writing is an especially serious business where children are concerned.
DeleteNo greater life-stories than the ones we choose to be part of. Myths and tales, like gods, have a way to find us... and keep us. Ana is such a wise little girl--full of spunk, too.
ReplyDeleteThey do, and they have a way of brightening up our world once they've taken hold. :)
DeleteOh, the myth hidden in my blood...swoon! This was a wonderful tale of looking to see who we really are!
ReplyDeleteThanks! That was the upside to this story - we can always look for connection someplace else when one road is denied.
DeleteI too love that last verse, Rommy! Sometimes our answers are inside us just waiting for us to find them. It's beautiful... but that's no surprise LOL you are such a gifted poet.
ReplyDeleteAw, thanks! :)
DeleteOH you took us right along to this wonderful end!
ReplyDelete*grin* thanks!
DeleteI love this poem, Rommy! BRAVA!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I'm really thrilled that the words resonated so well with others.
Deletevery cool final verse ~
DeleteThank you! I really liked how this one turned out.
DeleteOooh, lovely inversion at the end!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was quite pleased with how it turned out.
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