Dust Bunnies

J L Carey Jr on Sep 14, 2011

Tags: dust bunnies, J L Carey Jr, poem, Repressionist

One in a series of poems as part of the Repressionist Movement. The Repressionist’s, whose poetry seeks to encapsulate the mood and human experience of our day, were formed by Tina Twito, William S. Tribel and J L Carey Jr…

A special thanks to Tina Twito for coining the phrase “Repressed” as something more…

Dust Bunnies

Repressionist poem # 4

We lie… in the shadows

Waiting for someone

To kick us up again

Quietly contemplating

A resurrection

We know will never come

Ignored, balked at

And out of favor like

Some lost wax technique

Or some erstwhile text

Long out of print that

Aches to be repressed

We lie… here dreaming

Dust Bunnies in the dark

Haunts of attics

Struggling on a web

So crudely spun

In the cloud

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Tina Twito on Sep 14, 2011
Love how you fit the “repressed” idea in!

The first stanza here is the way I so often feel, needing to be “kicked up”. I like the “Dust Bunnies in the dark.” It’s funny, I was thinking about the “profound” comment and how I didn’t feel it fit me, how I feel I am a scared little “rabbit” of a person most of the time. And then you write about dust bunnies. Hmmm…
J L Carey Jr on Sep 17, 2011
One can be timid and still be a brilliant poet.

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