Poem: Of Earthly Songs
Jan. 19th, 2015 08:59 pm(T'ema is back. Just a slice of life, inspired by a prompt in the January 2015 Crowdfunding Creative Jam, from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alexseanchai: "Dreaming is free". Obviously this is a bit more of a free-form inspiration than direct interpretation.)
T'ema Huollo sat on the city bus,
Watching her fellow riders
One rainy winter day
After the holiday season,
When depression became more obvious.
A woman was sneezing
"Hard enough to break her nose"
As T'ema's people might say
And a man sneered at her, but
Said nothing as she blew her nose.
A family with two children
Clambered on board, multicolored children
Swarming the middle seat-rows while
The adults gamely shepherded.
This woman was pregnant.
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alexseanchai: "Dreaming is free". Obviously this is a bit more of a free-form inspiration than direct interpretation.)T'ema Huollo sat on the city bus,
Watching her fellow riders
One rainy winter day
After the holiday season,
When depression became more obvious.
A woman was sneezing
"Hard enough to break her nose"
As T'ema's people might say
And a man sneered at her, but
Said nothing as she blew her nose.
A family with two children
Clambered on board, multicolored children
Swarming the middle seat-rows while
The adults gamely shepherded.
This woman was pregnant.
( Read more... )
