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Codename: Wanderlust ([personal profile] codenamewanderlust) wrote2019-01-16 12:27 pm

LJIdol / LPF: Week 12: MacGuffin

I want to be a message in a bottle 
 
Full of mystery 
 
Sent out into the wilderness 
The wild greens and blues
 
Riding the boundless current 
For so long I forget what 
it feels like to touch the earth
 
Until you would delight in finding me 
Plucked from the gentle tide
 
An unexpected surprise
A welcome distraction
 
And a sense of connection 
So fragile you would weep with joy
To read the salt stained words
Tucked inside clouded cerulean 
 
Uncorked 
Unraveled
Liberated
Purified
 
Given sanctuary 
 
Taken to a place 
where you feel happy
 
To be read 
curled up in an armchair
Or at a breakfast table 
between sips of coffee
 
Trying to find the meaning 
The first and final macguffin
 
The pot of gold 
at the end of the  
Mobius-strip rainbow
 
To be spoken about with reverence
The line between philosophy and poetry
To be brought to life in your imagination
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[personal profile] rayaso 2019-01-17 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I enjoyed this so much! I loved "The first and final macguffin." The last line works especially well with the prompt.
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[personal profile] bsgsix 2019-01-17 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Free-verse suits you and your style. I enjoyed the flow of this piece, as well as the meaning.
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[personal profile] fausts_dream 2019-01-17 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this. Much stronger than my poetic effort this week.
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[personal profile] bleodswean 2019-01-17 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Nicely done! I love the last stanza, the sentiment and the way it works alone and together with the whole!
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[personal profile] dmousey 2019-01-17 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The Mobius 🌈 rainbow - now that would freak out the world, eh?
Anyhoo, thanks for.penning! βœŒβ˜ΊπŸ­πŸπŸŽ€β„β›„
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[personal profile] static_abyss 2019-01-18 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I love the flow in this. I agree with bsgsix that free verse suits you.
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[personal profile] murielle 2019-01-18 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
"The line between philosophy and poetry..."

Beautiful! Profound! Completely captured my imagination.

Wonderful!
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[personal profile] adoptedwriter 2019-01-18 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful!

[personal profile] bellatrix_lestrange 2019-01-18 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I really love the imagery you conjured!

[personal profile] tatdatcm 2019-01-18 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
So very lovely and picturesque.
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[personal profile] sonreir 2019-01-18 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I liked this! What better macguffin than a cryptic message in a bottle? :)
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[personal profile] halfshellvenus 2019-01-18 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I re-read this to imagine a person in place of the message, and it worked really well with both interpretations!

To be encountered by someone, to be welcomed in and seen and slowly known, your secrets understood and embraced. To be loved.

Who wouldn't want that?
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[personal profile] song_of_thea 2019-01-19 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
This reads well, the rhythm is good.
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[personal profile] flipflop_diva 2019-01-20 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I love this. Such beautiful imagery, especially this stanza (my favorite of all of them):
And a sense of connection
So fragile you would weep with joy
To read the salt stained words
Tucked inside clouded cerulean