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Outer Banks, NC 🌾 lover of words and of music sucker for a synth cancer survivor traveling down this road watching the signs as i go think i’ll follow the sun 🌞
So Long
It’s been so long that I’ve been here. The leaves are changing again– falling and floating down into shallow moving streams and still puddles, stagnant between moss covered rocks like bits of of orange and yellow confetti or sprinkles on a birthday cake or fish food flakes that miss the mouths and sink to settle onto the bottom. It should be so beautiful– when bright falling flashes of decay slalom from treetops on a downward course through crisp mountain air. It is beautiful. I know that. It’s just been so long since I’ve seen it. Three years, now since that fall, When the light was lost in me and the whole wide world went dark. And the leaves changed and they fell as I fell, as I opened my mouth to suck in the air but swallowed the water, breathed deeply down this cold, dark mountain water, where then a single, yellow leaf bright and dying flowed in and down and settled into the stagnant, mossy nook between two rocks where my heart used to be. Since then, nothing has moved me or moved in me. It was as beautiful then as it is now, I’m sure. But still, I cannot see it.
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Blog entries by Kristian Deidre Brown
For You, Wherever You Are (16/03/2024)
So Long (12/01/2023)
Angel Fish (12/01/2023)
Friday Morning Chemo Brain (12/01/2023)
I Want You to Know (27/11/2021)
Ode to the Butterfly Window (27/11/2021)
Tuesday, From the Water (27/11/2021)
Recipe for Reflection (27/11/2021)
A Year Ago, Tomorrow (06/04/2021)
The Violence Now of Miss Anthropocene (01/03/2021)
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Blog link: https://www.writeoutloud.net/blogs/kristiandeidrebrown
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Comments
Welcome to WOL Kristian! Look forward to reading more of your words. Good start by the way! I think a lot of people on here will relate to your poems. ?
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Philipos
Tue 19th Jan 2021 18:19
Hi Kristian, very much enjoyed reading some of your work.
I suspect there are umpteen survivors on WOL, of what you yourself have experienced treatment wise, and it is courageous of you hint at those experiences.
The increasing trend in this, adds, I am sure, an extra string to the pen of Blog.
Blessings.
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