We wrote our minds
Turned pages and created
A story all our own,
With characters flitting
In and out,
Changing with the season,
Riding falling leaves
And melting with the snow,
We allowed ourselves
The chance to grow
To nest,
To build a scene
That created reliability
Or fickleness,
We were given the pencil,
The ability to write dark,
Push hard into the paper
And create our stand,
Or erase and start anew
With fresh ideas
And newer thoughts,
We learned to sharpen that pencil-
Most of us-
But some of us broke it
Snapped it in half
And held only the eraser,
Handing the lead to someone else
And watching as they changed our story
Not knowing that we
Had the ability
To erase the tale they told
To scrub it out
And create something new
From the eraser stub,
To scratch and claw
A new story into the paper
With the metal left behind,
To create a story so stubborn
It could never be erased.
Katrina Thornley is a nature poet. novelist, and freelance journalist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!
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Katrina Thornley
Rhode Island based author and poetess with a love for nature and the written word. Works currently available include Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature, Arcadians: Wooden Mystics, 26 Brentwood Avenue & Other Tales, and Kings of Millburrow.
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Comments (1)
Well-penned (Penciled?) and highly inspirational. Great job, Katrina!