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When Pigs Fly MAG

September 22, 2012
By AriShine GOLD, Norcross, Georgia
AriShine GOLD, Norcross, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
"Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln


and i suppose
they will have wings
little chicken feathers
flap-flap
to carry them over their
rotting-wood fences and lift them
into cotton-soft clouds.
and there will be an exodus from the
farms, over hills and across rivers,
and we will shout as they alight
on our chimneys and desks,
bearing the great scent of omnipotence,
those ambassadors of wisdom,
and they will fling open our
veils and blindfolds and place
paradoxes in our emaciated fingers
as if they were handing us
candied apples.
and we will heed the impossibilities
of this world, for surely this world is impossible if
innocent passerby are at risk of discerning,
faintly,
a small “oink” from the heavens
above.



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AriShine GOLD said...
on Dec. 25 2012 at 9:29 pm
AriShine GOLD, Norcross, Georgia
13 articles 0 photos 130 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

O. said...
on Oct. 1 2012 at 7:16 pm
Wow! I love the whole idea of your poem, and you express it very well. I love especially your closing lines. :) Keep it up, and keep writing!