My fear is the forest,
Faceless, vast and overgrown,
where known entwined with unknown
And knotted stomachs in it’s branches.
Fearless I face you,
tiny hands on tilted hip
Knock-kneed and stubborn lip
Familiar forest, I see you,
And tremble a little less.
“brief; This weeks Tuesday Poetics hosted by Laura was ‘less is more’. We were challenged to use one or more of the ‘-less’ words to inspire and include in our work.
“Expression 
Faceless, vast and overgrown,
where known entwined with unknown
I like that a lot – even though we know what a forest is, we don’t know quite what we will find there. Even though we know what fear is, we don’t quite know how it will find us.
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You fearlessly faced the fearsome forest!
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I like the wordplay here, with fear, fearless, and fear less, not to mention familiar and facing. Good use of consonance.
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I love the forest. I am never afraid of it. I am more afraid of humans.
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I am not afraid of forests either but my fears grow like one 🙂
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Maybe it says something about me, but the poem made me think of the fear of the unknown in the first child, and how I had to hold her to know there was nothing to fear. The word tiny perhaps and the tilted hip is the position we adopt holding a child in our arms.
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I need to see and trust a trail clearly when I walk in a forest.
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Courage here is fearless only to that degree one acknowledges how fearful they are and act the face of it. A nice diptych here, the forest reflecting in the speaker’s gaze in the first stanza and the speaker facing off with forest in the second. The childlike elements of the pose suggest an early encounter with the fearsome forest and what was learned back then which tempers fear and forest. Well done!
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I love the first stanza here… the growing fear, the unknown mingling with the well known … and that knotted stomach
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The analogy is brilliant – and the smallness of you versus the forest of fears is so well illustrated with
“tiny hands on tilted hip
Knock-kneed and stubborn lip”
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