Just for a change, how about giving reality the brush-off? How about letting our imaginations out to play?
Imagine a woman in the middle of a field
Imagine the field growing bigger and bigger
Imagine the sky turning pink
Imagine another woman in a small plane
Imagine a column of smoke on the horizon
Imagine a hundred white butterflies
Imagine the women are thinking of circles
Imagine the circles are growing bigger and bigger
Imagine they're buzzing like bees
Imagine they're floating like clouds
Imagine the circles have escaped
Imagine the women have escaped
Imagine the field is empty
Imagine the plane is on the ground
Imagine a thousand white butterflies
Imagine a wrinkle in the sky
Imagine the women brushing their hair
Imagine the women remembering their past
Imagine the women walking on tiptoe
Imagine their soft breath
Wow! Nick, you have a great imagination.
ReplyDeleteGrannymar - Probably because for most of my childhood I had my nose stuck in a book. My parents had a hard job keeping me in the real world.
ReplyDeletei imagine a whole lot of stuff!
ReplyDeleteI have a vivid imagination, but that particular set isn't one that appeals to me much. I think I'm more likely to imagine myself in some situation than another person.
ReplyDeleteImagine all the people...oh, never mind.
ReplyDeleteKylie - And I'm sure it's just as fanciful as the stuff I imagine....
ReplyDeleteAgent - I do that as well. The more unlikely the situation the better. It makes me realise just how random is my present real-life situation, however normal it seems.
Megan - I couldn't help thinking of THAT song when I was writing the post. But John was actually a bit more down to earth, however improbable his scenarios.
I became distratacted by the plane
ReplyDeleteMyra - Interesting. Maybe you have a secret yearning to be a pilot? Or a bird?
ReplyDeleteOkay, so which image sticks in your mind? And why might that be? For me, it's the wrinkle in the sky. That slight imperfection that has an endearing quality....
ReplyDeleteI live in my head most of the time, Nick and like you, the wrinkle is what appeals to me. I write of underbellies a lot. The hidden, the imperfect.
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ReplyDeleteImagine the two of us on a stroll in the field growing bigger and bigger with a woman in the middle of a field!
ReplyDeleteI would imagine that I will simply perish imagining what is unreachable!
Ramana - You mean the field keeps getting bigger and bigger so we can never reach the woman? What a wonderful image! Very frustrating though....
ReplyDeleteOoh, I like this. My favourite is 'Imagine the women are thinking of circles'. And my second favourite is "Imagine the circles have escaped'. Though, now I've typed it out the second may be my first...
ReplyDeleteEryl - I wonder where the circles escaped to? Perhaps they ran off with some triangles....
ReplyDeleteI like to imagine a very short woman winning the lottery...
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Scarlet - As I happen to know you're a fairly short woman....
ReplyDeleteThey say that if you walk on tiptoe and think of circles, you're sure to win the lottery.
Okay - I give up. It's the script for an advert either for tampons or a new low fat yoghurt.
ReplyDeleteBlackwatertown must surely win a prize for that comment...
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Paul - Ha ha! You could be right, judging by some of the totally surreal adverts that appear nowadays. A blissed-out menstruating woman surrounded by a thousand white butterflies - very plausible. In fact, haven't I seen it already?
ReplyDeleteScarlet - Knowing your interest in adverts of all kinds, I can see you'd appreciate that idea!