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Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Small House

In the small house
A small girl
Spent a small part
Of every afternoon.

In the big house
Her big family
Acted all the time
Like wild baboons.

Clean windows, silver locks,
Flowers in a window box--

That's the small house
Where a small girl
Dreamed dreams as pretty,
small,
and distant
As the moon.
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A poem in 55 words.

21 comments:

  1. It's important for a kid to have a place where s/he can dream. Great poem! Thanks for sending me into the weekend with a smile :-)

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  2. I love this little poem. I like its simplicity, its rhythm, its balance. Nicely done.

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  3. Hmmmm....
    Beat out by Edgar Allen Poe
    Grrrrrrrrr

    Loved your Small Story Shay.
    It's always an honor to have you play.
    Thanks for visiting and reading, and have a Kick Ass Week-End

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  4. we all need our places to escape to...even if we can not get out of the orbit of the big one...keep dreaming little girl in the little house...

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  5. we relate to that girl in her private space. . .



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  6. you make writing seem effortless, love visiting here, enjoyed this very much

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  7. "Where a small girl
    Dreamed dreams as pretty,
    small,
    and distant
    As the moon."

    love this 55, Shay! ♥

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  8. I would have thought big dreams could have come out of that little house. I liked the wild baboons.

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  9. Love the sing-songy sweetness of this.

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  10. some mornings I awaken and choose to live in a 'little house', one I never had as a child. Hopefully, it's not just for little girls :-{)

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  11. That's a darling little house alright. You put the reader right inside it, Shay.

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  12. This is really beautiful, thank you.

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  13. So perfectly composed its one of those where you can't believe its only 55 words. My husband has a photo book called Tiny Houses, like the one in your pic, and they seem to embody a sort of wholeness that many bigger houses dissipate in unneeded rooms of chaos, full of baboons. Loved this small dream, however far away the moon always seems to stay.

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  14. Lovely and poignant. One feels the loneliness of the little girl, related to her baboon-people in the big house.

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  15. I wish I had that house! I'd move in tomorrow!

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  16. Enjoyed this a lot - good read, made me smile. =)

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  17. I always like the expression, "Big love grows in small houses"
    Tis poem fits :-)

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  18. I could live in this tiny house.

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  19. Makes you glad that she could escape to the small house. Hell, I wish that I could escape to a small house sometimes.

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  20. This reminds me of David E Kelley style story-telling. It resonated with the anti-social me.

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