In Plain Sight – Day Two – #NaPoWriMo21
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Todayâs prompt was to write a poem along the lines of Robert Frostâs The Road Not Taken. So, I came up with this, which leaves the reader to search for any other “roads” the narrator may be alluding to:
In Plain Sight
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When she met him, she was hiding:
Toying with possible futures
From inside a retail whirl.
A newly toasted slice
Of utter self-loathing
Glowed from the embers she wouldnât sweep up.
She was good at talking:
That mouth, when properly engaged,
Could spin attractive escape ropes;
Accommodate all angles,
Run far with fantasies
Until even she forgot their falsehoods.
So, they hid together,
Worked hard and âgrew upâ,
Bore new people, tangled with traditional roles.
Dishevelled wings fluttered from their piled laundry,
Followed her around, their offspring
Unravelling fabrics in awkward places.
Time squatted between the coupleâs brows,
Encircled their smiles
And crept up their necks.
Something old and blue,
Borrowed from their intertwined histories,
Tapped at the veneer of ânew normalâs.
Two prized photographs moved in –
Now reaped from the home
Sheâd never revisit,
From people sheâd never re-hold –
Catching her on the brink of things
All set to rock her core:
The cosy coat of childhood
Still buttoned against the worldâŠ
The empty scroll of promise
Still clutched by too-thin handsâŠ
Her older face, reflected, stared aghast,
Whilst he could see her happy, in the past.
I started writing this around 7am this morning, but made the error of going for a coffee break which alerted our eldest that I was awake, so it has taken until this afternoon to get it the way I want it and post it up here đ it’s so nice to wake up and know I’ve got a planned writing exercise, though! I hadn’t realised just how much I’d missed it.
Hope you are all feeling good today, leave me a link in the comments to any poems you have been posting on your websites if you’d like me to visit. Take care and I’ll be back here tomorrow, so please drop in again!
Monty X
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April 2nd, 2021 at 2:33 pm
Cleverly wrought if a tad pessimistic. But I suppose that is the nature of the task you were set. I look forward to future offerings
April 2nd, 2021 at 4:43 pm
Thanks Jane x
April 2nd, 2021 at 2:37 pm
A well constructed poem and very interesting