I write because I read. I read because I write.
I thought the turning time
can successfully erase traces
of the sparkling, beating void
your goodbye left inside my tattered soul.
A decade after, it becomes clear.
I am wrong.
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P.S. I combined the first three prompts because I was late. 😦 Forgive me. ❤
Bad Goodbye
You said it’s unintended farewell,
but your eyes shows you’re
lying, lying, lying.
You can’t even look straight to me,
as my tears starts
flowing, flowing, flowing.
As I try to keep
my broken heart
beating, beating, beating,
you closed the door,
and leave me with no air for
breathing, breathing, breathing.
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©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved.
Photo credit: Unsplash
In response to dVerse‘s Poetics: Unintended Farewell.
Coming to this week’s prompt – here is what I have in mind – I want you to write a poem about the farewell you gave but didn’t mean to – the good-bye you said but hoped that you will meet again at the crossroads. I know it happened to me before, more than once – that I got onto a train, waved my hands involuntarily, the people I left behind fading slowly and that only made me realize how strong the bond was. I hope you will enjoy writing this – come join me and celebrate poetry.
Sitting still
in a steel stool,
she begs, weeps
for one more second.
–
Endearing,
exquisite enchanter,
ends first cry on
her life’s first second.
–
Captured candid
cheesy charade,
changed by sudden
death in a second.
–
Old oak observes
ordeals, orbits of
earth’s occupants’
every second’s beat.
–
Nervous nerves
never needed,
not in a stage
she owns for one second.
–
Dream desired
delivers disappointment
deserves encouragement
for just one more second.
–
Sorry, seconds could
not be stolen, saved so
snag, snap, smack
sing, spin, swing,
stay…
every single second.
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©2015 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved.
Photo credit: Magic4walls
In response to Writing 101:
(Yep that’s me! :D)
A new life sees the world for the first time. Simultaneously, another life takes its final breath.
A passenger that was supposed to board a plane was one second late. Hours later, the plane went missing, the passenger saved.
Unimportant as it may seem, a split second can change our lives in ways we can never imagine. So today, write about the basic unit of time, seconds. Reflect on those few seconds when a loved one was in a life-and-death situation. Relive the few seconds when you held your eldest child for the first time. Recount those seconds when you were waiting for big news that was about to change your life.
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