The Present

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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

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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.

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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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