Bugs-Eye View

Hey all!

This poem is from a random poetry prompt, I think. I was trying to come up with a few more pieces to choose from for my fair entry, but I ended up not using it after all.

i saw the world

from a bugs-eye view

and all the world

was green and blue.

an hour was a day

because life was brief

but that hour was enough

and i knew no grief.

the sun was bright

and my world was wide;

my view as a bug

in the great outside.

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This is not what I had planned to post this week, but I suddenly got busy and didn’t have time to work on my other post. Maybe next week…

For you who care to know, the reason I was so busy is that I managed to get signed up to nanny the speaker’s kids at the camp my little sister Elise was going to. So I basically got the ultimate behind-the-scenes pass to camp (during the times I wasn’t wrangling a two year old, three year old, and four year old). The other two girls and I rarely had the littles without their mother nearby, but she had a month and a half old baby to take care of. It was a lot of fun, but it was also…just a lot. period.

We did the pool (i didn’t bring a swimsuit tho so wore wet denim shorts for four hours 😢), went on walks, I read the same bedtime story three nights in a row, the four year old told me the story of every flower in the landscaping and how she is the flower princess, the two year old fell asleep in my lap (she wasn’t supposed to fall asleep yet…but I couldn’t get her to wake up no matter how hard I tried)…it was a good time.

Except when I got home I was so tired from my two consecutive weeks of camp that I fell asleep while watching Anne of Green Gables with Lauren and Elise. I drifted off somewhere around Mrs. Blewett and woke up somewhere around the issue of the missing brooch. So basically I slept through Anne yelling at Mrs. Lynde. Kinda impressive, actually. Fortunately, I woke up before Gilbert first appears on screen. *sighs in relief*

So yeah. It’s been a week!

Always,

Ava