If Fairies Wear Boots And Dance With Dwarfs Then Pixies Wear Pumps And Carry Purses

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Thoreau

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on a one-way, paranoia trip through what's left of my smoke-filled mind

i pull down the creaky, acidic, attic stairs and softly ascend

to the claustrophobic corners and darkest recesses

amidst cobwebs and dead spiders

i see things i could never have imagined

they say that fairies wear boots and dance with dwarfs

i heard and saw that along with pixies in pumps carrying purses

chasing away life's ills like an army of nurses

their wings, how they did glisten

i guess there's something for everyone

we just have to know where to look and how to listen

Author's Note

"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations." - Thoreau

Reviews

[WGSHASSERE]

I liked this piece. Thought provoking and well done. I would have gotten the same reading experience if you had started your poem with second paragraph “I pulled down ……….” Let the reader image where the door was located. Thanks

[Pete]

good suggestion that i will take you up on and reverse the first two lines. thanks for sharing thoughts and constructive critique. keep well.

[Pete]

oh, i see now. reversing the entire paragraphs.

[WGSHASSERE]

You got it.

[Pete]

thanks, i'll have to mull that over a bit.

[Yoli]

i think "acidic, attic stairs" will linger long in my mind in their citrus smell of rotting wood.
It has such a sensory impact, and in my personal read, it casted the whole poem with its evocative power of decay (sweet sweet).

[Pete]

the seemingly unreachable corners of the mind. do we dare go there to discover and learn?

[emmajoygreen]

What you can paint with your mind, you can touch with your fingers? Your words whisper loudly, Pete.

[Pete]

quite true indeed. the hands and heart wish to grasp and feel that which the mind summons.

[emmajoygreen]

So it's said and - exactly as said.

[Ken Simm.]

Extraordinary. Whimsical and sometime serious. Couched in just the right language.

[Pete]

sounds like you found it all friend. thank you kindly for sharing.

[tumi]

perfect imagery, very good

[Pete]

thank you kindly.

[Davidgeo]

Nice work.

That's a good song too. Good for the season.

[Pete]

thanks. one of my favorite songs that i've always liked.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

if we dare to search among the cobwebs and dead spiders, our imagination can find so many things we never dreamed possible.
I want to visit this attic in person...since you describe it so well in poem.

[Pete]

the human mind is remarkable, complex thing. medical science continues to learn of its intricacies and has only scraped the surface. thank you for sharing thoughts jacob.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I call the wildflowers that bloom outside my window, fairy flowers, because they look like tiny bodies with four blue wings. Old school rock, there. Cool.

[Pete]

cool about the flowers that you mention. i grew up with old school rock. black sabbath was a groundbreaking band. tony iommi played some of the best guitar riffs ever despite missing the tips of two fingers and wearing artificial tips that he fashioned himself so that he could still play - amazing. thanks for sharing fgf and keep appreciating those fairy flowers.

[Thomas W Case]

Excellent work, another shout-out to BS. I love Technical ecstacy by the way. Often Overlooked.

[Pete]

thank you twc. bs was one of the first bands i fell in love with to this day. yes, technical ecstasy is often overlooked.

[Patricia Wedel]

In the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia.. I wore Pink Lady Slipper Flowers to dance among the Wood Fairies. Nature is so thoughtful. softly, Pat

[Pete]

i love it - flower power. flared bell-bottom jeans, and oversized floppy hats.