What Is

thoughts rewrite themselves
as i wash clothes  
dishes
the dog

i sweep floors with poems that never were
incomplete wisps
dust bunnies in lower case

i would mourn them
if i knew their names.

copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2016

Posted for Poets United Pantry

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  1. I love this, Audrey, especially sweeping the floor with poems that never were.

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  2. Wow, this is awesome. I especially connect with this line: "i sweep floors with poems that never were"

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  3. Haha! Better to rejoice in never being alone! I love this poem and I'm sharing it.

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  4. I understand mourning those thoughts that didn't get written....happens quite often for me.

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  5. I think I have swept a few dust bunnies, those fragments that never became a full thought.

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  6. Delightful to see the joy all around. Wonderful write

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  7. Whether one chooses to think about them ideas will always be there for the picking. Very true Audrey!

    Hank

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  8. i sweep floors with poems that never were... Audrey, I just loved this piece.

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  9. Our best thoughts comes as we are doing the dishes or washing the dog. We just have to remember them.:)

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  10. I have so been in this head space - and thus, it really resonated with me. Besides which: it's such a lovely little piece. I just love it. One of my fav's of yours, Audrey.

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  11. Beautiful! I love your words and they reflect the things that go through my mind as I do the same things.

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  12. Loved this. Most creative - sweeping the floor with poems that never were.

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  13. I love the way the poem moves from the prosaic to the poetic..

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  14. This sounds like the universal writer's lament. :) Good to have you back. Happy Holidays, my friend.

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  15. haha I'm not that close to my dust bunnies... I chase the little buggers away. :)
    A delightful read.
    ZQ

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  16. Such a beautifully bitter-sweet write, Audrey ❤️

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  17. Dust bunnies in lower case - this made me smile.. made me think what once seemed vital can quickly change to dust..even words

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  18. Love the poem, the dust bunnies are still there somewhere waiting to be picked.

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  19. Some poems will never come to light and its fine, smiles ~ Love this share Audrey ~

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  20. Hello Audrey ~

    Can you please contact me at

    sometimesg@yahoo.com ?

    Happy New Year - Grace

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