I’m running really late so this one will just have the future reference.
Oh the wind blows wild,
Scattering leaves apart.
The lone roads cry
As we have to part.
All the smiles we had,
All the fun we have had,
Remember them, go on,
don’t get so sad.
The future’s coming
Taking us by a storm.
We’ll have different paths,
Lives taking new form.
So smile one last time,
for that’s what I’ll remember.
In hoping again that
someday we’ll be back, together.
I have to say. Doing Found Poetry is probably the hardest of all the poetry forms I tackled only because of the infinite options I have. So, I decided I will attempt the other two parts of the prompt later. I’ll have Landscape done now.
Water smashes the dock
Seagulls flying by
Sailors shout curses
As we say goodbye.
To you, I wish a bon voyage,
Sail proud and high,
Never lose your heart.
I trust you to return,
and with this trust, I’ll wait,
Growing fonder while apart.
The storm may fall,
Cruel winds may try,
I know you’ll prevail,
Rise in the clear sky.
Have hope in your heart,
And fight with all you’ve got.
Your journey’s to begin
Such a wonderful life you’ve got.
Shining in the sunset,
Light in the night,
Strong in the storms,
Always shining bright.
Fight, survive, help, be helped,
Do it all and go on.
The folks you chose at your side,
Take care of issues together head on.
This wooden home,
So majestic, so proud.
Keep her safe, and so shall she
Keep you safe and sound.
Farewell, my traveler,
May you see sights unseen.
May you bask in stranger sunlights.
For I expect tales of everywhere you’ve been.
I bide you farewell, o traveler,
Knowing you’ll one day return.
And we’ll continue from here on.
My world will move again,
And I will be awaken from this stasis,
With you, I’ll then carry on.
All except the last stanza can be imagined as a woman biding her sailor goodbye. The last one is after he’s out of earshot.
Ah my keeper of memories,
so glad I’m to see you!
Come on now, open up quickly
and remind me of who I was once again.
The swimmer’s cap still smells of the chlorine,
and there’s the worn out baseball cap I always had on,
I see the notepads that are filled with lots of trivial details,
And the songbooks of my favorite songs.
There’s the first love letter I got,
and here lies the photo of my first crush.
Our simple lives, meaningless worries,
You’re a true reminder of what I was.
The broken pencils remind me of my failed sketch attempts,
And the light-hearted mockery it brought on.
The abandoned story ideas all scream now,
still they presume I will sit down and write them now.
Oh, my keeper of memories, such things you keep,
Reminders of my young self, the truth of who I was.
I long to be back in those days, when I always had more to add,
But now it’s time for my last goodbye, so thank you for staying with me so long.
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I think I wrote an elegy again while going for an ode. Well, it all depends on perspective, I suppose.
Here’s my entry for the day 7 of the (now over) Writing 201 Poetry Course. The prompts are Fingers, Prose Poetry and Assonance.
“Clickety-clack, clickety-clack… was the noise her fingers made,
‘Aid me here girl, leave the typewriter alone now’, her mother yelled.
The girl barely looked up, brows furrowed in concentration as she hurried in getting out all she had to say.
There was a clang, then there was a clank and the little girl froze as she recognized the sign the sounds gave.
The mother came into the room, displeased by the girl’s disobedience, and announced, ‘Soon! Very soon,
you’ll be gone. Off married, leaving me to mourn. Why don’t you listen, why be such a burden?
Why not learn some homemaking skills at all?’ The mother left with a sigh, shaking her head in disappointment.
But the girl secretly smiled, hearing the her mother’s pride in her child even in her admonishment.
And with a final clickety-clack, she got up and left the typewriter… and the ode to her mother she’d written”
With a swagger in his step
And a gun on his left hip,
the newcomer entered the place folks called hip.
The stars shined in the dark night outside
Then the door slammed shut, cutting off the noise of outside,
Then the wise brown eyes took all in
And not a muscle jumped as the others did the same
The air was electric and the smell was stale
The sound of the the music quickly drowned away.
Eyes never left his framed as he headed to the bar,
Eyes that were jealous or lusting were fixed on his back
The anticipation of something new was finally coming back.
Swallowing the drink at once, he turned around
Didn’t even flinch as laser aim settled on his heart.
The buzz faded away, fear replaced the anticipation
Chaos ensued and all were on their own.
The man then moved, a slithering snake,
Slipping and striking, string of dead in his wake.
The bullets whizzed by among the screams
But the man never flinched, never did he falter.
And then all who were left standing were the two alphas,
Neither looked away, not giving up in the staring match.
Without breaking contact, the man made a move,
Without a delay, the other alpha executed a counter move.
The dance was deadly and others stared mesmerized
And then the two were close enough for the final strike.
And the man was like wind, a blur to all.
Crushed his opponent’s throat with a punch that surprised all.
The other alpha fell, survivors stared in fear
The man just spat at the corpse, left others to cower in fear
With the swagger in his step
And the gun undrawn on his left hip,
the newcomer disappeared in the dark night outside.
The lights of a thousand colored suns
The subdued sound of the mess around
the storm of confusion wrecks havoc in my head
But I don’t stop moving, lest I fall down.
Nothing comes to mind,
No truth shining in the dark
Strangers look at me with malice
And I know they see a confused coward, with no bite, only bark.
This one is way late but only now I could comfortably sit (ok, I just got interrupted) and write. And thanks to Adele’s Skyfall, I now have a tune to go along with it! In fact, the song just got me an extension for the poem. To maintain shape, I finally had to resort to inserting an image for the poem and the song.
P.S.: Click on the image to enlarge it but be aware that the pic is very, very large.
