It’s the 4th anniversary of dVerse Poets Pub and we’re celebrating all week. For today’s prompt, I’m using some ice-breaking tricks and techniques so all the pub goers can get to know each other a little better. The instructions were as follows:
1) Find three words that describe you well or mean a lot to you – you don’t need to explain why they mean so much to you, but they do have to be oozing with significance. For example, for me, I might choose: Vienna, swoosh and fairness.
2) Now, choose three words to describe things or people that you are grateful for, to build on the gratitude discussion we were having yesterday.
Let me again give an example: children, words, friends.
3) Now write a short poem (no longer than 12 lines please, but it can be shorter if you like) incorporating these six words.
To my surprise (but perhaps to nobody else’s), my poem came out a tad more melancholy than I had expected…
Words between friends
all bridges, camp-fires, the silences still precious…
Words between children
flash-floods, fence-mends…
I’m always too late
but all heart for all that.
My quest for fairness a shade too thorough,
digging deep long after they’ve moved on.
Should I surrender to the swoosh
alone in the snow?
My sky is always cold and gray.
This means nothing to me… Oh, Vienna!
Maybe this song is to blame – one of the first I remember recording from the radio.
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