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
october two thousand fourteen
copyright j matthew waters
all rights reserved
jdubqca 
Love this, John
Thanks, Kathleen – so glad you do!
Oh yes! I also gather others thoughts and have “pinned them against a blank
sheet of paper”. Sometimes they grow and sometimes they don’t. Yet no unpinned thought has ever grown.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this one, Archie.
A borrowed thought.. what an interesting though.. I might need to borrow that 🙂
By all means, Björn 😀
Like it!
Enjoying the book too.
Many thanks
Tp
Thanks so much, wish you were still here, Tom.
2 thumbs up
Thanks so much, Bonnie!
Love this phrase” I borrowed someone else’s thoughts and pinned them against a blank sheet of paper .”
Thank you so much, Lola – I’m happy that you do!
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