(30/30) Meet Me in the Cellar
I skipped the last prompt from NaPoWriMo and posted this poem from another writing group I belong to.
You’ve been gone
for so many years,
I struggle to remember
how your voice held me.
Even when you yelled,
I could hear love;
it kept the monsters away
it encouraged me to do my homework
it told me to take out the trash.
One day while at a cousin’s house,
I heard a soft tone
whisper
meet me in the cellar.
I went
downstairs;
it was you
speaking over white noise
covered in dark.
©
2018 Abruvanamedsly
(29/30) Disappearance
The prompt for day twenty-nine over at NaPoWriMo: write a poem based on the Sylvia Plath Poetry Project’s calendar, (I chose her poem
An Appearance) then write a poem that responds or engages with the chosen poem in some way.
The poem I wrote might not engage or respond to the one I chose, but it definitely uses style elements from it.
The cackling of this blazing cross crumbles me;
symbol of divinity glowing like the devil
bones whispering about brimstone.
From melted lips nouns and adverbs
leak like punctured lungs,
it was Tuesday in my mind: escape.
Ironed and freshly whipped,
torn flesh begs for maggots;
wounds scented with defeat.
I wear death and its darkness
nestled in an unmarked grave,
the ground speaking in noose riddles.
An empire of persecuted blood flows
under abandoned cotton fields;
my body will bathe in it like rain.
O child who hungered for freedom
the north star was a beautiful lie
shining like a slaver’s lantern.
©
2018 Abruvanamedsly
(28/30) Reverence
The prompt for day twenty-eight over at NaPoWriMo: draft a prose poem in the form/style of a postcard.
(27/30) Speaking with Sunrays
The prompt for day twenty-seven at NaPoWriMo: pick a tarot card then write a poem inspired either by the card or the images and ideas associated with it.
Every morning,
I take time to speak with the sun.
We talk about the shadow times
and hiding from brilliance;
how struggle will eat you alive
if you don’t learn how
to starve it.
The child in me knew;
that’s why I kept
him alive.
©
2018 Abruvanamedsly
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