Door half-open
Door half-closed
Shadow – light
All transposed
Cup half-full
Cup half-empty
Is it lacking?
Is there plenty?
It’s too hot
It’s just right
It’s too cold
What a plight!
Close one door
New one opens
Toying with
My emotions
Happy, sad
Frightened, brave
Peaceful, mad
Giddy, grave
Rarely I
Am only one
I’m a mix
Shadow-sun
This is my response to Sadje’s “What Do You See?” photo (above)
I spend way too much time with my counselor talking about emotions. At one point, she gave me a list of emotion words to help me identify what I’m feeling. It’s not that I don’t have feelings — it’s that I have trouble naming them. Well, I take that back — when I was going through a particularly challenging time, I shut down my feelings, and, as they have come back, they’ve sometimes re-emerge in a tangle.
Hot Dogs and Marmalade 
A very evocative poem Sally. Emotions can be at times hard to label or deal with. Thanks for joining in
Amazing! You created such a fun flow of words throughout the stanza while telling the shadow’s tale. Well done.
silver linings
sliver
paper cut
stand receive
and deliver!
I am constantly in a tangle too.
❤️
Fabulous poem, Sally, and your closing paragraph really resonated with me. Many times I struggle to identify exactly how I feel, and sometimes they get so tangled that it’s impossible to figure out. 💞
I think that whoever coopted “blue” for sadness totally understood that. Think about how many and how different shades of blue exist! Are you feeling sky blue? Robin’s egg blue? Stormy sea blue? Navy blue? Royal blue? Am I right?
💯 spot on!
I’ve been there.