ANIMALS - a daily series of poems with illustrations by @bennettitalia

in #poetry7 years ago (edited)

BABY PERSON

This kind of baby lives in dreams
He wasn't aware of something
now he is
I knew him a long time ago
Where is he now?
I'll never know
Where is he now?
I can't yet see
How he walked upon this Earth when I was just a baby
baby baby
Whatever happened to this Earth
When I was just a baby?

I want to know what he's looking at.

I think: I think: I think:

These poems are adapted from an art book I made awhile back. Check out the rest of the series so far, if you like:

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/5uks3e-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/3tnvz2-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/6a2wqb-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/5rzypz-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/2gzejy-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/2qsam-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/6cnd3d-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/483edb-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

https://steemit.com/poetry/@bennettitalia/72iyvy-animals-a-daily-series-of-poems-with-illustrations-by-bennettitalia

©2018 Bennett Italia

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This is an interesting poem. I like the sense of reflection that it carries. It kind of makes one ponder a bit. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, so glad you enjoyed it :)

These were an interesting process. I'd do these quick little watercolors (without thinking too much, kind of like a visual art version of freewriting), and then I'd write a poem based on whatever picture I came up with. So they're a bit different from the poetry I usually write, a little more abstract and dreamlike. Usually when I write a poem, I'm well aware of what my point is, or at least kind of what the poem is aiming at saying. With some from this series, I have no idea :D

But if I can feel a point there in the writing, even if I'm not quite sure what it is... I consider it done!

I think it only works for posts with 200 words or more.

you might be right I forgot about that... although the bot is also apparently being reconfigured at the moment, so I'll leave it just in case.

It looks like it's 50 words or more... I think the bot has just been offline.

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