Drawing Exercise: Dissolve
To be truly sad, you have to know the right people.
But since the whole world was marching,
I kept on marching.
The leper was kneeling by the pond, turning
to crumbs for ducks and pigeons.
Instead of roadwise, I took
to rounding water.
If I could have sealed out that erosion,
I’d have sealed it with a footprint.
If I could have filtered salt from avalanche,
god knows I’d have filtered.
Without rippling, I was going lightly round.
By the second day, I could not spot him.
His clothes were lying on the ground.
The pond turned blue.
The road was brown.
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(the prompt asked to choose an element as a springboard for a poem. Make mine water.)
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6 comments:
It's not just water that dissolves. I like your use of water as a metaphor for other agents of the process.
wonderful, how you weave disparate thoughts and ideas and images into a tapestry. To me the image of the leper hunkered by the pond seems to center this From deep in the well of your soul, yet you maintain a solid control. Impressive.
That first line is stunning. Fascinating take on dissolution in different forms... love it!
This is brilliant. The first line is marketable all by itself. Great job.
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You're killing it with this. Awesome.
Wow. That was amazing. I like how it moved sideways into rhyme underscoring the dissolution. Well done.
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