Check out Write Stuff’s Bright Stuff posts: simple suggestions for us to exercise our writing skills (and get out of a writing funk). I saw 426 posts listed under that category there, so as writers we can’t possibly be lost for ideas based on that alone! This time it was suggested we add “one” of the ideas below into a scene or stanza that is not working for us now. Never one to follow all directions, I used them all in the order given in a new poem, similarly to what I used to do (and will again) here (read the second one, it is better) with Unconscious Mutterings. I did break my own rules after this was written and edited a line or two.
Her phrases:
A ringing phone.
A sealed envelope.
An unidentifiable sound.
Two men in orange sneakers.
A rare bird.
A broken clock.
My poem:
The Sound
A ringing phone broke the silence
that came after he opened
a sealed envelopeand with the shrill tone as
a backdrop he allowed
an unidentifiable sound to escape
his soul,one as strange to him as two men,
in orange sneakers and black suits,
hefting a casketwould be to normal society.
A sound comparable in a timeline
to the sighting of a rare bird,
but as intense as the emotion caused
when a broken clock starts
the moment a loved one’s soul moves on.It was the sound
of both letting go and hanging on for dear life.MeeAugraphie
02/24/08
Take advantage of Karen’s prompts – your way! I did. Thank you, Karen.
