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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

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psychomama
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January 20
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The quotation on my banner is from Steven Wright.
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I'm a working wife and mother whose 50th birthday resolution is to develop a life - friends, a book club, a voice... I've loved writing all my life and I've loved talking all my life - it's the convergence of these two modes that's been difficult! But I'm working on it... All posts copyright Agalma 2009. The quotation on my banner is from Steven Wright.

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AUGUST 27, 2010 8:12PM

Inestimable design

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Somehow I have become

a new and awesome one 

who waits,

weights,

waits

 

Measuring

pound and ounce;

pain and gain

 

My physical essence

a medium of exchange,

of value;

this for that;

now for then

 

Over-powering,

be-labouring,

looming,

to pounce

 

Questions

burst forth

clenched tooth and jaw

notwithstanding

to demand -

 

How might it have been?

What might have been?

Who might have been?

 

Casting off 

stitched-together

layers

self and body

ego and image

yet  wound

from the same 

skein

 

 

 

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teenage angst in middle age resolution, poem, diet, body, image, poetry, health

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Good lord, I have a great collection of favorites who can write. Rated!
zumalicious
August 27, 2010 09:09 PM
Glad to see ya around again.. I missed you.
RicTresa
August 27, 2010 10:15 PM
Wonderful poem, sometimes it really feels like that.
RomanticPoetess
August 27, 2010 11:25 PM
I do a lot of measuring seeking to change my body image, but it is always the same me, deep down...
Patrick Frank
August 28, 2010 12:45 AM
I'd like to hear more about this journey.
mypsyche
August 28, 2010 12:47 AM
Great to see you my friend. Much to think about in what you wrote.
trilogy
August 28, 2010 01:00 AM
This is lovely and evocative about personal evolution.
Dorinda D.
August 28, 2010 12:51 PM
Wow! I turn my back for one minute and you all comment so nicely! It's good to be back, reading and rating again. As you can see, this has been a summer of self-reflection. The diet continues and, yes, it's become about much more than food. I've been joined by two others in my family. Together, we're learning new ways of nurturing ourselves, difficult for being new but worthwhile nonetheless. At times I feel sheepish, at others ashamed, to be discovering these truths at my age. Better late than never, though ;). I wonder sometimes, is this what the infant, born fresh and new to her own flesh and blood, must have felt like?
psychomama
August 28, 2010 05:53 PM