fleeting thoughts and butterfly nets

26 Oct 2014

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

Posted in Nature, Poetry and tagged butterfly, creation, poem, Poetry, thoughts

13 thoughts on “fleeting thoughts and butterfly nets”

The Course of Our Seasons on October 26, 2014 at 9:03 pm said:

Love this, John

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- j matthew waters on October 27, 2014 at 6:45 am said:
  
  Thanks, Kathleen – so glad you do!
  
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archiearchive FCD on October 26, 2014 at 10:13 pm said:

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.

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- j matthew waters on October 27, 2014 at 6:50 am said:
  
  Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this one, Archie.
  
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Björn Rudberg (brudberg) on October 27, 2014 at 3:04 am said:

A borrowed thought.. what an interesting though.. I might need to borrow that 🙂

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- j matthew waters on October 27, 2014 at 6:47 am said:
  
  By all means, Björn 😀
  
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Tom Phelan on October 27, 2014 at 7:54 am said:

Like it!

Enjoying the book too.

Many thanks

Tp

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- j matthew waters on August 19, 2019 at 6:46 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much, wish you were still here, Tom.
  
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Bonnie on October 27, 2014 at 9:44 am said:

2 thumbs up

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- j matthew waters on October 27, 2014 at 12:21 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much, Bonnie!
  
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Lolamarina (@1Lolamarina) on October 30, 2014 at 1:27 am said:

Love this phrase” I borrowed someone else’s thoughts and pinned them against a blank sheet of paper .”

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- j matthew waters on October 30, 2014 at 6:43 am said:
  
  Thank you so much, Lola – I’m happy that you do!
  
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