Hello!
I was a bit bummed by what the generator offered today, so sat and thought about all the different meanings of ‘present’, ‘statement’ and ‘event’ – then managed to come up with a wee story that
from randomlists.com
meshed together ok in my remaining minutes.
I actually wrote the first verse and then realised that ‘colorful’ (*again, spelt the UK way in the poem) and ‘unpack’ were set up nicely once I got to them.
Go me! 😉
Subsequent Present Second-hand Afternoon Statement Productive Event Colourful* Unpack
“All subsequent words
Are not worth repeating”
She finished, staring down
At the present before her.
I was hearing the story
Second-hand, but still
It was charged with
Violent regret.
I felt for the protagonist:
Left standing in a police station
On what started as an ordinary afternoon
(Now damning prose and statement)
But it did not seem productive
To mull over and over
Such a harrowing event
(With hinted-at colourful language)
Instead, I reached over our coffee mugs,
Still steaming through our words,
Reminded my lady to open the box;
Hoping she’d unpack our shared future.
I used the word over too many times in the last two verses, and my lady kinda bugs me…but I am quite chuffed with what my time produced.
poetic scrawl
Which nuances, of which words, would you have used? How would your story have unfolded?
Chat to me about it in the comments 😉
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