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The Tip of My Tongue

May 14, 2014
By Rose_13 PLATINUM, Farmington, New Mexico
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Rose_13 PLATINUM, Farmington, New Mexico
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Favorite Quote:
If you try and teach a fish to climb a tree, it will live it's life forever thinking that it is dumb. ~Albert Einstein

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The Tip of My Tongue is a strange hotel,
where words and thoughts lay hidden.

It is where important things stay,
when I only wish to speak them.

They stay in my mind when I don’t need them,
and then they slowly work their way to my tongue,
where I cannot see them.

So goodbye thoughts!
Have a nice vacation!
Please come back when I no longer need you,
just like you always do.

© Anna R, Sudbury, ON, Canada

The author's comments:
I hate when I cannot remember something, but I can remember the outline of it, and then I say, "It's on the tip of my tongue!"
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