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Thank you biblioholic
The Teller of Tales by Gabriela Mistral
When I’m walking, everything
on earth gets up
and stops me and whispers to me,
and what they tell me is their story.
And the people walking
on the road leave me their stories,
I pick them up where they fell
in cocoons of silken thread.
Stories run through my body
or sit purring in my lap.
So many they take my breath away,
buzzing, boiling, humming.
Uncalled they come to me,
and told, they still won’t leave me.
The ones that come down through the trees
weave and unweave themselves,
and knit me up and wind me round
until the sea drives them away.
But the sea that’s always telling stories,
the wearier I am the more it tells me...
The people who cut trees,
the people who break stones,
want stories before they go to sleep.
Women looking for children
who got lost and don’t come home,
women who think they’re alive
and don’t know they’re dead,
every night they ask for stories,
and I return tale for tale.
In the middle of the road, I stand
between rivers that won’t let me go,
and the circle keeps closing
and I’m caught in the wheel.
The riverside people tell me
of the drowned woman sunk in grasses
and her gaze tells her story,
and I graft the tales into my open hands.
To the thumb come stories of animals,
to the index fingers, stories of my dead.
There are so many tales of children
they swarm on my palms like ants.
When my arms held
the one I had, the stories
all ran as a blood-gift
in my arms, all through the night.
Now, turned to the East,
I’m giving them away because I forget them.
Old folks want them to be lies.
Children want them to be true.
All of them want to hear my own story,
which, on my living tongue, is dead.
I’m seeking someone who remembers it
leaf by leaf, thread by thread.
I lend her my breath, I give her my legs,
so that hearing it may waken it for me.
I need a volunteer to pay the rewards.
Volunteer will get 50 WRZ$ + the number of valid winning contestants x2
Anyone who wishes to volunteer please post in the next 5 minutes and a volunteer will be randomly selected
wellwhocares wrote:me?
Thank you wellwhocares for volunteering, I appreciate the offer
You will receive 33 x 30 + 50 for correct author + 116 for you = 1156 WRZ$
- Please donate 30 WRZ$ to everyone that posted correct image guesses
- Please donate 50 WRZ$ to Mifr for being the first to correctly name the author
- Please mention in your donation posts the reason for rewarding
- Please report here once you have finished donatewarding
What is it?
- A contest where you have to find the different words of part of a poem made up of pictures and symbols, it may not be a whole sentence.
How do you play?
- Post the number and the associated word from the images provided. (see example below)
Rules:
- Only 1 image guess per person - any more and all of your posts will be disallowed.
- No duplicates
- Where a post has been edited resulting in duplicates, then the last one in time gets disallowed.
- The game ends when all the words and the author have been found.
Reward
- 30 WRZ$ for each correct word
- 50 WRZ$ for the first person who correctly names the author of the poem. You can only guess once and it must be posted in a separate post.
Small tutorial
This is an image of a note.
You add a q and substitute the n for a u.
You then get the word 'quote'.
Sample Post:
br195 wrote:3. Quote
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Credit and thanks to Cryptologist for the original Riveting Rebus contest
– hija
