This is a truly beautiful poem Andrea! The use of nature to remember each thought was wonderful throughout and I believe there might be a "key word" ineach stanza. As in ribcage raveen. That is very bbeautiful and unique. I think you might be talking about your heart there. Memories in your heart can be good or bad. In the second stanza I loved the use of tiptoe. In my mind that tells me you are saying that these are good mmemories because you have to be quiet or soft to tip toe. I guess it can go both ways. But I see the positive here. I loved the poem as a whole. It has a very unique charm to it. Even the ending line is powerful. The flow was great and as always each line and stanza connect so well!. Well done and nominated.

This is just WOW Maple! I love it when you write nature poems and this one was with a touch of love. Loved the metaphors & really a brilliant piece of art!

Keep writing:)

This goes without saying, but that was beautiful! I don't know how you do it, but you make your words so tangible, and you put the reader right at the scene. Great work, as always.

Really I want to give a comment about how this piece moved me and how stunning it was. I want to say how much I miss reading your work and feeling such a simplistic beauty from each piece. I want to say this is the best piece I've read in a while, but I'm not sure it is, and I don't want to lie in a comment to someone as wonderful as you. There are so many things I want to write in this tiny little box about this piece but the words aren't coming right, they don't sound too good at all, and really in the end all I can think is that this is beautiful and so are you.

Well written... sorry for the rant.

Brilliant piece.