Tag: poetry challenge
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Unravelled
#NaPoWrimo Day Three Today’s prompt was to write a poem that involves a story or action that unfolds over an appreciable length of time. I decided to take the prompt literally and write about an unfolding (unravelling) marriage. I love thinking about the fabric of time being a tangible thing, I have written several poems…
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Tiny Hope
From my window I watch cars as they pass a line of box-like houses. A bus stop opposite shelters a gaggle of commuters, the fine April rain making them hunch like vultures as they wait. Next door a dog barks. Farther afield I hear children scream in carefree delight. Spring is trying to awaken, buds…
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Ode to Coffee
I can taste the electrification as it courses through my nose, As it sparks each hair like static and then jolts into my dome. Rich and full and bitter, With a depth I’ve never known, I can all but see the flavour; It has a body of its own. The scent whispers to me softly,…
Serena Malcolm 