What A Stone Can Feel
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Jasleen Dhillon, Grade 7, Mary MacKillop Regional College -
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Poetry
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2022
Excellence Award in the 'Summertime Fun ONLINE' competition
A retention of emotions swallows me whole
A single moment of remembrance
Can be the epitome of ebullience
Or can achieve equanimity in my soul
a crimson rose, a sharp pang of grief
A grave with vermilion flora scattered around it erratically
A diminutive key, seems inconsequential
But a feeling of security entombs me, as the house that it unlocked once did
A a field of butter yellow daffodils
Joy floods me as did the carefree air of summer
A green idyllic forest brimming with life
A burning inferno of freedom being sparked to life
An object may not have sentience
But through time emotions latch onto it
Like dewdrops caught on a spider's web
Even a stone can shed a tear