photo - Lee Frielander
Mag 96
This little verse is a response to the Magpie Tales photo prompt at left. Frielander often uses shadow in his photographs. Join Tess Kincaid's other magpies here.
Old Wives
Tales
Apple peels and Letters
Teaspoons in a cup
Sleep atop a wedding cake
Count the buttons up
Rich man poor man beggar
Time, he is a thief,
Shadows to remind me
How futile to believe
I can't point to a particular reason why, but this one charmed me utterly. Sounds like a skipping-rope-rhyme or a bedtime prayer or something, but rather pensive in tone. Love it.
ReplyDeleteWell done. One can imagine the subject of the photograph trading Old Wives tales with a neighbour.
ReplyDeleteCount the buttons up! great ! thanks-
ReplyDelete"Old wives tale"....this is brilliant! :-)
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