This is for FOWC: Wand and the Weekly Scribblings, which this week is about hunting and/or being hunted. I decided to go for exciting / hopeful / happy, rather than terrifying. 🙂
What if tomorrow’s sunrise is the most divine?
What if a coming sunset is the prettiest?
What if what you search for, you have found?
What if that drab stick on the dry ground
Is a magic wand, bringing peace, more than a dream?
What if you keep seeking what magic means?
This is an “occasional verse” for Linda Kruschke’s paint-chip prompt this week. An occasional verse is not only written once in a while ( 🙂 ); it is a poem about a specific occasion. Linda challenges us to write about Mother’s Day, which at this point was several days ago, but I still wrote on the same topic. The paint chips are below:
This is brought to you by the Writing Wednesday prompt, “time.”Thinking about time always gives me a small existential crisis, so happy reading to you!!
Hands: running in circles,
Unable to turn backwards.
Roman numerals reveal the hour,
Gesturing toward its lateness.
Is every half-an-hour announced
With the sound of a cuckoo?
I never put trigger warnings in my posts, but I will for this one. TW: mental illness, suicide
This was inspired by the official NaPoWriMo prompt, which is “to write a poem that poses a series of questions” (I hope this fits) and also the Weekly Scribblings prompt about liminal space. In case you’re wondering, I actually feel better after writing this. I thought maybe I shouldn’t post, but I couldn’t resist responding to 2 prompts at once. 🙂
What happens when a survivor
Wants to stop surviving?
This piece of identity
Crumbling
What happens when the birds
Make her so happy,
But their songs fly
Like their wings?
What happens is, even when
April is new-born and sunny,
There is an understanding
Of what Eliot meant
When he said April is the cruelest month.
This is so not the poem I intended to write, but life has a way of throwing stuff at us, right? Hooray for being able to respond to NaPoWriMo day 23 and the Weekly Scribblings at PSU.
This is a last-minute poem for Linda’s paint-chip poetry this week. It’s not really a narrative poem but uses 4 of the words.
If you have faith as a mustard seed,
Although it won’t be easy-peasy,
You can against all odds succeed.
Sky-high can reach a skyscraper,
From some metal and scaffolding,
Reality grown from a drawing on paper.
Maybe you can even, under mistletoe,
Receive a kiss one festive Christmas,
Meeting that kismet, standing on tiptoe.
For FOWC: Jettison and MLMM’s Saturday Mix. Not a masterpiece but passable.
Jettison —
Let go of what imprisons
Be free —
Break ties
Realize
That just might be
What a soul needs
To mend.
Now, if only I could figure out what to jettison and how….
Inspired by Angie Trafford’s Writing Wednesday prompt.
Often opposites attract,
Until they drive each other crazy.
In time, one hopes maybe
One trait can counteract
Excesses in the other, counterbalance
And offer new perspective
To any kind of challenge.
For this prompt about the passing of time and for FOWC: Prodigious.
Time’s prodigious pace
Slows. Significantly.
When you wish it would speed.
Time runs wildly
During those moments
Which make you the most happy:
Time flies by;
Soon you must leave
The dear one by your side.
Wait as the world
Spins several more times,
‘Til you see each other again.
NaPowriMo 2021, day 6. I’m not particularly happy with anything I wrote today. I had a difficult day, so most of the poems reflect that. I try to keep things positive or at least have them end on a hopeful note. So I guess I can thank my friends for helping get me out of the pit (or, I can thank my “crew” so that I can link to FOWC 🙂 ). I am going to cheat a little bit and post this thing I wrote 5 days ago about the sunset:
Vespertine sunset colors
Sky into a celebration:
A last hurrah,
A gorgeous evening gown,
So costly and only
Worn once
