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Tumbleweed No More.

Updated on May 30, 2022
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Artist, actor, poet, teacher, songwriter & actor with 4,000 poems & almost 1,000 songs written, performed recorded & published on line.

Ever wandering, seldom pausing, the ultimate wind catcher.

This is waht a living tumbleweed looks like
This is waht a living tumbleweed looks like | Source

The tumbleweed is the hobo of flowers always looking for a better place to pause.

Tumbleweed No More.

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Tumbleweed set
in a clay pot,
hot glued
to its girth
gathering the
morning sun rays
with its
endless fingers.
Languishing it
squats in sorrow, 
unmoved by the
north wind's whistle, 
plucked free from
a roadside fence,
running through
New Mexico.
Most likely it is 
the only tumbleweed
in all of Ohio 
because no one else 
would take one 
home but me
and because I liked 
its itinerant traveling
moved only by the
whims of the winds
It was not meant
to be handled
it has tiny little
sharp points that can
scratch flesh
It was once a
beautiful flower
that shed its
petals and leaves
and went on a
different path
unrooted and most
often traveling 
in groups 
Of course after dark 
one might think
they were alive
as they roll by you
or brush your legs
in packs of
weathered brambles
It is an ancient traveler
and mine once rambled, 
over endless desert plains, 
till it was stolen in my
momentary longing
to be like it
Its age is unknown
it is a mobile fossil
that could be decades old
but oh, what great stories
it could tell 
It would be fun 
to set it free 
on a windy day in Ohio 
down inner city streets 
and watch and film 
the reactions of 
northern folks who 
watch it tumble by.

© 2010 Matthew Frederick Blowers III

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