
The Line
by Ingrid Wilson, Monthly Contributor
site: https://experimentsinfiction.com/
Pay out the line
cast it cautiously
(not over-cautiously) and
dip it deep
into the wellspring
of your wild imagination:
come up singing.
Pay out the line:
it is your Ariadne’s thread
and clue of twine
which leads back to yourself
for every forest is a maze
most labyrinthine like
the chambers of your brain,
pay out the line again
probe deep within.
Pay out the line:
unbreakable, umbilical the cord
which once attached you to your mother’s womb
provided blood and nutriment, your birthright
like oxygen to the astronaut or diver
reach further, plummet deeper for you have
your lifeline still.
Pay out your line
yes, yours; you own it as you earned it:
do not be afraid.
The gorgeous palaces
and cloud capp’d towers
of vision and experience
are your one true inheritance,
and so, with calm, and quiet confidence
I say,
pay out your line.
@Ingrid Wilson
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Thank you for publishing my poem, Gabriela! ❤️
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My pleasure Ingrid. It’s a fabulous piece ❤️🌸🌺
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I should have put in the reference ‘The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,’ is from The Tempest, 4.1.152 – sorry!
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You said it now 🌸🌺
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Yes 😅 apologies to The Bard! 🌹
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Truly amazing piece. Wonderful .💕
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Thank you Grace! 🙏
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My pleasure 💕
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Amazing piece, Ingrid! Congratulations! I especially love the lines: «and clue of twine/ which leads back to yourself» Thank you!
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Thank you Virginia 🙏
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Beautiful, Ingrid! I like the repeated line.
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Thank you, Merril – just coincidence that that was today’s prompt!
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What a radiant piece from my friend Ingrid. The line is the poem that hits us like life. 👍
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Thanks so much Lamittan!
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Feel most welcome, Ingrid.
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Ingrid, I was captivated by the first stanza on your blog. The poem in its entirety is a beautiful unfolding of reflection and truth! ✨
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I am glad you enjoyed this, Michele, thank you! 🤩
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This is absolutely beautiful and so fitting for the NaPoWriMo prompt of repetition, Ingrid! Some fabulous life lessons and love the nod to the Bard. ❤️
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A happy coincidence re the prompt! Thanks Punam 🥰
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Indeed! You are welcome. 🥰
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Stunning write! 👏👏
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Thanks Tricia 💖
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I love how «pay out your line» was repeated several times and it worked so well…so beautiful..
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Thank you Mich! 💕
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Such a beautiful poem Ingrid so poignantly delivered. The repeat and life line of this poem coming back our birthright is divinely delivered! 💖
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Thanks Cindy 💘
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💕❤️
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Gorgeous, Ingrid!
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Thank you Jeff 🙏
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You’re welcome, Ingrid. Always! 🙏
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Lovely piece about the price of things, even of birth, well done Ingrid. Congratulations. Joni
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Thank you Joni!
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What speaks to me about this piece is the influence of the past embedded within us; when we truly live authentically we right the wrongs and «pay out the line.» Beautiful piece, Ingrid!
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