Hello 🙂
The prompt for today asked me to read someone else’s poem from end to beginning, responding to each line as I went. It suggested that it should be a poem I didn’t know. I thumbed through my copy of Modern Scottish Women Poets and chose a two-verser by Elise McKay entitled “No Answer” that I hadn’t read before:
Here is my poem:
A life emblazoned on a screen –
Rainbows –
It spoke of things I didn’t want to see again:
Ingratitude, incongruence.
I bought myself some roses,
Became blurred around the edges.
I tiptoed into the shadows.
Sometimes I refuse to write:
An empty vessel, screaming.
I’ll always give into the impulse eventually…
This pleasing mentality can blind me.
Sometimes a phrase can sit awkwardly on a page;
Words are only fleeting,
I’m only human.
Sometimes memory is better left unetched.
This was a surprisingly fun exercise!
[Page is from ISBN: 1 84195 526 4]
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April 19th, 2018 at 6:51 am
These prompts lead you on interesting journeys