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Inspiration Call: Symbolic Animal Thursday
Write a story or a scene involving an animal that symbolizes something else. It can represent a concept, an experience, an emotion, a historical moment, or anything else you can think of.
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Raja's Insight 
Wild Horses Running Free
I see the wild horses
running across the western desert
so wonderfully free
and wild
and I think to myself
if only I could be as free
as the wild horses
running across the desert
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A Swallow Who Won’t Wallow
by Pasithea Chan
Am a swallow who’s fled from this world;
to reside in a personal inferno!
I fell into the hands of a virtual nomad;
who got lost between what was unsaid & untrue.
Like a greenhorn I followed him & ventured;
into making a promise that I can’t undo!
Until finally I found myself crushed;
in a ravine by the ailing tide of an echo –
of a heart’s feelings that weren’t returned!
With no hope, trust, or creed;
I woke up to find a residue –
of what used to be me and
a billow of what I heed!
Time rolls my dears with such great speed.
Before I could realize it,
I had nothing more to ensue;
not me, not my life, but now definitely the need –
to fight & stand up for what
I want to see push through.
Choosing him was a fatal wrong indeed;
but am sure he’s the kind of med.
I won’t spew.
So am thanking him for giving me
The wake up call I need!
And though my eyes might not be mellow;
nor my voice that of a reed;
am not easy to subdue;
nor am I packed with pride!
Hope we meet again in the years to follow;
to see the challenge he’s left me to concede;
cause am a Swallow
who will always be
far from what’s Wallow!
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Forgotten but they remain
Wild horses
Hiding in the shades
Seeking an opportunity to stay
Beautiful creatures roaming
Scared
Feared
Remain hidden
Dodging extinction
Replaced by a different breed
Untamed and Free
Wildly instinctive
Poetically beautiful
Passionately trudging ahead
Steady in their strengths
Looking for acceptance
Searching in the shadows for a light that is not there
Majestic creatures
Nomadic existence
Them and me
It’s same thing
xoxo
♥️me
8/1/2019
Thebrokeninsideofme.com
https://thebrokeninsideofme.com/2019/08/01/inspiration-call-symbolic-animal-thursday/
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Waterfox by Pasithea Chan
Have you seen a water fox?
They say it walks on two
laughing back at you.
It has murky eyes
with iris colored lies
for intentions.
Deep schemes
but shallow values for lips
contoured with tricks;
and a loud bark
with silent remarks.
It feeds on confusion
hunting with illusion
with a nose hot with greed
and paws that strike cold
those who bleed.
Liquid defines its state and build
letting it fit any vessel or guild.
Trickery is its art
creating wars on tact
always pulling an act.
Fluid in motion
prevents commotion;
Fluid in texture
makes it hard to grasp.
All in all ever illusive
always evasive
naturally pervasive
remarkably persuasive
and definitely destructive.
You can try to kill it
but you can’t kill
what doesn’t have a soul.
See a water fox is a pretender
mixing glamor like a bartender
in glasses of synthetic ardor
posing as an ally or lover.
Only when you learn to accept
a water fox for what
it is, that is you can’t
get rid of it or do without
it, will you stop
chasing illusions
or being a target.
Author’s Notes:
Inspired by: “The depths don’t scare me darling. I would rather drown in the raging deep than suffer shallow waters.” N.Taylor
Elusive and tricky people have been known to be as tricky as foxes but as fluid and flexible, yet as silent and as deep, and as flowing and as unstoppable as water. These concepts are what shaped the water fox metaphor in this poem.
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