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Hector H Taylor's avatar

Excellent analogy. Beautifully done.

I’ll send you my moth denouement in a personal.

It’s unrelated.

But it involves moths.

Ootheca's avatar

Thank you Hector and I appreciate the moth poem as well!!

the talking chair Lit Journal's avatar

Beautiful imagery!

Ootheca's avatar

Thank you chair!!

Ootheca's avatar

I do a power metal scream every time I get a like

Olly von's avatar

I came to tell you how much I liked this poem and then saw you titled it moth pit 😂I love it even more

Ootheca's avatar

I’m so glad rock on Olly 🤘

- - - Kate Dunoway - - -'s avatar

oh, wow. This was really something! <3

Donal McKernan's avatar

Reverie is an antidote to much of the over-focus, over-delineation and branding of our identities, most especially in an age where we are drawn like moths to a flame, burned and distracted by the internet, from one state of narrow focus to another. - David Whyte