
Magpie Tales is another blog running a regular photo prompt for aspiring writers to throw an eye over and see what results. Here's my first stab at this week's 'weighty' topic;
Shelter
Days build like scales
each a measure, particular unto itself
accumulating combined heft
new weight thrums to composition
chiming into place a melody
which, in twining towards the familiar
cools to a carapace
© P Nolan 2010
Poem as my mother's burial approaches
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*[ash natural as sunsets]*
Ash natural as sunsets
As this brook here,
Nothing to fear, some say,
The silence is the main aspect,
And strange for...
1 week ago
