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The Question

One moment fast asleep

final depth before daybreak

when suddenly

quietly spoken but precise

this question:

'If I lived in an old stone cottage

on the Yorkshire moors

what colour would I paint my door?'

 

Instantly the vision

eyed from hovering hawk:

a stalwart little house

set deep among green hills

in clean blue isolation.

And the question so clear

so interesting

that I am shocked awake

considering the answer.

 

Talk about scary.

Mind!

Motoring away in the subconscious.

Maybe the sole factor of 'Human'.

No wonder we devise religions.

We so need an alpha star!

 

 

Cynthia BuellThomas

April, 2017

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Raj Ferds

Sat 8th Jul 2017 06:15

I really love this piece Cynthia purely because it is so bizarre. There are some naked emotions there struggling to get out.

The subconscious is a weird and wonderful thing and seems to be at its best around that time. So lie back and enjoy it when it visits you next.

I believe some questions don't have answers.

Beautisul.
Raj

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thu 4th May 2017 19:21

Oh, that famous 'red wheel barrow'! Well remembered. I'm honoured that this poem even reminded you. Wow!

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 4th May 2017 17:31

This is just the sort of mental imagining that can be
experienced when in bed and mulling over a multitude
of things that enter and leave with extraordinary rapidity:
processes over which we seem to have little control yet often provide the incentive to create/invent.
Your door...or someone's red wheel barrow? Hmm.

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Stu Buck

Tue 2nd May 2017 15:20

a strange little piece cynthia, in a good way! it seems almost trivial until the final two lines, which round it off nicely. got me thinking now as well, not about doors and cottages, but of the bigger questions we may ignore for such trivialities.

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Tue 2nd May 2017 12:44

Not 'clever', Paul. Because I have no idea. So the 'problem' will probably be with me, popping in and out of my head for the rest of my days. It is such a significant question - like asking me to define my whole attitude toward LIFE. Nothing simple about that! The colour chosen would speak volumes about the inhabitant.

It was a creepy question. And I don't know who asked it!

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Paul Waring

Tue 2nd May 2017 08:44

I like this Cynthia, really interesting and well-written - and clever enough not to tell us which colour you'd choose ?

Paul

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