"My Blanket"

"MY BLANKET"
by Patricia Ramsauer

Wrapped in my blanket, mad at my brother,
because he kicked my doll.
I am here like in a little oven,
pacing my mood as it comes and goes.

I personally think
that the world is a piffle,
nothing is permanent,
I am proud of nothing.

Here in my pajamas,
I am in my quarters.
Nobody in, nobody out,
no question, I am the best.

I am on my little island,
in my inventing room,
here, I make everything new,
and everything else drifts away.

My jacket is jealous of my blanket,
it is my castle and my home,
a little itchy sometimes but cozy,
I am invisible inside my blanket.

I don't peek-a-boo, I peek all from here,
no guilt puzzles me, I gulp what I am.
I guzzle every thought, every feeling,
I can be grumpy here, no one cares.

Graceful lines hold my head and my chin,
my eyes closed, my nose snuffed,
tucked by my angel, it keeps me soft and warm
my blanket is all I have when I am sad.

This is the game I play when I fly in my dreams,
I build a castle of flowers for my fascination,
fairies and butterflies flutter around me,
never bored, never dull.

That's my world inside the blanket,
with a little light and my book,
my zany jungle of thoughts,
they come and go, they are my life.

My brother is the king in his world,
if he kicks my doll or wrecks my books.
That makes me jumpsy, but
he's my marshmallow at the end.

The meadows of my blanket,
hills and valleys, soft as clouds,
marbles roll up and down,
on mountains skiing after dawn.

Memories find me in the middle of my thoughts,
I pin each of them in the map of my existence,
in the planet where I live,
in the playground of questions and puzzles.

I am the queen, in my blanket-palace,
my guards are rabbits,
slow to anger, quick to jump,
from slope to slope in my whoppsy blanket.

Tall as skyscrapers sometimes,
smells like pie some other times,
smashed by my brother some days,
but he is a snapperwhipper as I said.

My little snowflake, he snarls at me,
then I snuggle and forget,
then he sneaks inside my blanket,
and we share a piece of apple pie.

He brings his own blanket,
we both sneeze at once,
then he snorts with a loud noise,
and sings a song of his own.

My blanket with her squiggly face,
always squishes me in a big hug.
I play statue, she is the squirrel,
then my mind flies away and finally,
I fall asleep.

LA ISLA DE LAS LECCIONES

LA ISLA DE LAS LECCIONES

Hace muchos años, en una isla lejana, había una pupa colgando de la rama de un árbol. Dentro había una pequeña criatura. El estaba muy orgulloso porque tenía una manta especial entretejida con raros filamentos que lo conectaba con los diferentes habitantes de la isla.

La criatura en la pupa oyó un sonido extraño y viajó por ese canal en la net. Vió un gran oso marrón que estaba hibernando en un gran árbol hueco. Lo encontró por el sonido del hipo que el oso estaba teniendo. El oso impaciente por el hipo que no paraba “No puedo hibernar más con este hipo”. Y la criatura trató de entender la situación y observó al oso. El oso decidió dejar el árbol y fue a una cueva en la isla. Dentro de la cueva, encontró a un robot polvoriento sentado allí. “Hola hermano, ¿qué te ha pasado? ¿Porqué estas aquí sólo?” El robot no funcionaba bien. No podía hablar. El oso juntó unos alambres y apretó un botón que reseteó al robot. 

“Yo soy el robot de seguridad de la isla. He sido abandonado por los líderes. He visto pasar cosas malas en esta isla y ellos quieren que me quede callado. Buenas criaturas han sido maltratadas y eliminadas de la isla”. Dijo el robod con voz entrecortada.

“No te preocupes hermano. Nosotros vamos a darles una lección” dijo el oso.

El oso reseteó al robot. Borró la memoria y cambió las opciones para hacer maldades, lo hizo agresivo y malvado. 

“Anda libre y has lo que quieras. No te preocupes por los demás ni te preocupes por las consecuencias de lo que hagas”.

El robot salió de la cueva, actuando con un poder inusitado y sin cuidado alguno.

“Paff! Stomp! Whizzz! Plump!” Fue alrededor de la isla aterrorizando a todos los habitantes egoístas y engreídos que vivían allí, haciendo desastres por donde pasaba.

“Ey! como escapaste? porqué estas haciendo todo esto?! Para!” gritaban los habitantes de la isla, tratando de detenerlo. Pero el robot poderoso era imparable. El tomó el poder de la isla y la hizo temblar. 

El alimento de la isla estaba basado en un raro especímen de plantas y él destruyó todo el habitat. 

“!Sfffwwwwisshhh!!” El robot mandó rayos al cielo haciendo que todo sea frío y mató todas las plantas. 

“Oh, no, todo estos hongos por todas partes, vamos a morir!” dijo una criatura.

La isla completa fue destruída, no había esperanza. La isla se congeló por todos los cambios. Todas las criaturas murieron. Luebo hubo un mecanismo automático que limpió la isla. De acuerdo con las tradiciones de la isla, este sistema botó todas las criaturas al mar.

En este momento, el oso que sobrevivió hibernando, bajó de la montaña. Viendo toda la tragedia en la isla, se apenó mucho. “Esto es muy triste. ¿uando van a aprender?” Y caminando en una pista desolada encontró al robot, en medio de la calle. 

Cambió la opción del robot a “Lección”. El robot se levantó y se movió otra vez en su poderosa manera “Opción Lección, Comienzo de rescate”, Dijo en su nueva voz. Trajo una gran red y fue al mar. En un gran bote, colectó con la red miles de pupas que estaban en el fondo del agua. 

“Aquí vienen, espero que no haya sido en vano”, dijo el oso.

Las pupas salieron del agua brillando con luces multicolores. Una vez en la orilla, cada criatura salió viva de la pupa, abriendo sus alas, en una forma completamente nueva, renovadas, llenas de admiración. “Esta ha sido una experiencia totalmente nueva. He aprendido la verdad de la vida. Cómo ser bueno y amarnos los unos a los otros”. Dijo una de las criaturas. Todos vinieron con una gran perla en la mano. Esta era el premio por todo el sufrimiento de la experiencia y la lección aprendida.

Hubieron algunas criaturas que les molestó y estaban iracundas por los incidentes que pasaron y tiraron la perla al mar “¡No me importa, qué es esta perla, nadie me dice qué hacer, yo hago lo que quiero, no me importan los demás!” 

Todas las criaturas que tiraron la perla y no aceptaron la lección, fueron envueltas con la pupa nuevamente y fueron otra vez como bebés, colgando de las ramas de los árboles de la isla... esperando a crecer, observar y aprender otra vez.

El oso volvió al gran árbol hueco en la montaña, a su hibernación. Esta vez sin hipo, hasta la siguiente estación, donde sería encontrado nuevamente por la siguiente lección. La criatura de la pupa que estaba colgando de la rama observó la escena “Creo que esa lección era para mí también” y desplegando sus alas, salió de la pupa, transformada en una magnífica criatura alada. La manta de la que estaba tan orgullosa era su consciencia, siempre conectada a todas las criaturas alrededor de ella. “Hoy aprendí que vine a la vida con las alas de la libertad, la misma que perdemos si no somos cuidadosos manteniendo la paz del mundo. Y la perla debe estar siempre delante de nosotros, para recordar. Si la pierdo, regreso a la pupa, para aprender de nuevo”. Y así se fue volando, sosteniendo en su mano el mundo de paz.

The Island of Lessons

The Island of Lessons

Many years ago, in a distant island, a cocoon was hanging from a branch. There was a little creature in the cocoon. He was very proud because he had a special blanket interweaved with rare strings that connected him to different inhabitants of the island.
The creature in the cocoon heard a strange sound and traveled this channel on the web. He saw a brown bear who was hibernating in a big hollow tree. He found him for the noisy hiccups the bear was having. The bear was impatient by his hiccups that would not stop. "I cannot hibernate with this hiccups anymore." The creature tried to understand the situation and observed the bear. The bear decided to leave the huge hollow tree and went into a cave on the island. Inside the cave, he found an old dusty robot seating there.
“Hey, buddy, what happened to you? what are you here alone?”
The robot was not working well. It could not talk. The bear joined some wires and pushed a button and the robot reset itself.
“I am the security island robot. I have been abandoned by the leaders.”
“I have seen bad things happening in this island and they want me to keep shut. Good creatures have been mistreated and eliminated from this island.” Said the robot in a cracked voice.
“Don’t worry buddy. We are going to give them a lesson” said the bear.
The bear reset the robot. Erased the memory and changed the settings and set him to do bad things, he spoiled the robot and made him reckless.
“Go and be free. Do whatever you want and do not care about the consequences.”
The robot went out of the cave, acting with outstanding power and careless.
“Paff! Stomp! Whizzz! Plump!”
He went around the island, terrorizing all the selfish and spoiled inhabitants, making disasters everywhere he went.
“Hey, how did you get out? why are you doing all this?! stop!” the inhabitants of the island shouted trying to stop him, but the powerful robot was unstoppable. He took the power of the island and made it tremble. The island's food was based on a rare kind of plants and he destroyed the habitat.
“Sfffwwwisshhh!!” The robot sent rays to the sky making everything cold and killed the plants.
“Oh my, this mold growing everywhere, we are going to die!” said one creature. The whole island structure fell apart. There was no hope.
The island froze because of all the changes in the environment. All the creatures died. There were automated mechanisms to clean the island. In accordance with the island traditions and this system threw them into the ocean.
At this time, the bear came down from the mountain. He survived in his hibernation, and seeing the village the way it was got puzzled, “This is sad. When are they going to learn?”
Walking on the desolated road, he found the robot in the middle of the street.
The bear set the robot with the “Lesson” settings. The robot got up and moved again in his powerful way. “Lesson setting, beginning of rescue.” Said in his new voice. He got a big net and went to the ocean. In a big boat, he trawled the deep waters and collected a myriad of cocoons that were on the bottom of the ocean. “Here they come, I hope it was not in vain,” said the bear.
The cocoons came out sparkling whirling lights. Once in the shore, each creature came out of cocoons alive, spreading wings, in a completely new shape, renewed, full of admiration. “It has been a whole new experience. I have learned the truth about life. How to be good, in peace, and loving each other.” said one of the creatures. They all came with a huge pearl in its hand. It was the reward for suffering the experience and learning the lesson.
There were some creatures who got annoyed and angry by all the incidents and threw the pearl into the ocean “I don’t care! what is this silly pearl! Nobody tells me what to do! I do all I want, when I want, I don’t care about others!” All the creatures who threw the pearl away and did not accept the lesson, got wrapped back into a cocoon and soon they were as babies, hanging in branches around the trees in the island... waiting to grow, observe and learn again.
The bear returned to his hibernation tree in the mountain. This time without hiccups, until the next season, where he would be found again for the next lesson.
The cocoon that was hanging on the branch stared at the scene “I think that lesson was for me too” and sprawling its wings, came out of the cocoon turned in a magnificent flying creature. The blanket that he was so proud of was its conscience, always connected to all the creatures around him. “Today I learned that  I came to life with the wings of freedom, the same that we can lose if we are not carefully keeping the peace of the world. And the pearl must be always in front of us, to remember. If I lost it, I would go back to cocoon, to learn again.” And he flew away, holding in his hand the world of peace.

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