Sunday, August 23, 2015

Strung Along

Like a puppet
you have strings 
attached
dancing 
to another’s tune
until you are
tied down.

For Margaret's "Play it Again, Toads" at IGRT.  I went back to Mama Zen's Words Count.  She asked us to write about a power image (part art, part personal mythology, part creative shorthand part art, part personal mythology, and part creative shorthand...anything that a writer imbues with a greater meaning that it would ordinarily have and adopts it as a signature symbol) in 25 words or less.  I'm not sure this is really a "power image" by her definition, but it is a recurring thing in my writing.

16 comments:

  1. This is good Mary, wrote a poem, putting it on FB

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  2. There are so many strings attached, but I often fail to find the puppet master.

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  3. and one I can relate to. Good power image.

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  4. "Marionette, I ain't one yet."--Mott the Hoople

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  5. Tied down--or strangled. The puppet show is getting surreal around us, Mary--but maybe that's what it's for, like this image.

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  6. wow...a fantastic power image that....

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  7. To be tied down, that's a powerful image ~

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  8. You made every word count. This is so powerful.

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  9. This is a study in perception and movement. I would love to see it on stage... from the point of view of the dancer, the puppeteer, and someone who can see both angles.

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  10. Oh, I've surely felt that way. Fortunately I did find a fellow who I'm in harmony with. We recently celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary.
    Thank you for visiting us at poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com

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  11. This is the heart and soul of almost all power dynamics: control from without and assent from within. Wonderful.

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  12. got side tracked down the rabbit hole of the Flat Earth Society. there are actually people who appear to believe that. stunning. talk about being tied down, albeit inverse to the sense you've so lucidly penned here... ~

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