Napowrimo 2024. Day 16.
Finally, here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does. The “surprise” ending to this James Wright poem is a good illustration of the effect we’re hoping you’ll achieve. An abstract, philosophical kind of statement closing out a poem that is otherwise intensely focused on physical, sensory details.
Petals on Grey
Soft pink petals,
Scattered a flowered blanket,
On cold harsh tarmac.
Bringing colour and beauty,
To an otherwise man-made world.
Spring has arrived.
By Katie Haigh
©️K.Haigh 16th April 2024
©️K.Haigh
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