HH prompt: Wish

empty of wishes
at the end of a red day
but full of prayers

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Want to write something?

franzad's avatarwords on life and other strange experiences

Dear fellow WP-ers, lets do a writing prompt.

Lets write about freedom, about freeing oneself.

For various reasons, and also because of a blog post

of a fellow writer http://www.kseniaanske.com i am

contemplating over the term freedom and art. What is it

that truly frees us from painful pasts, bad habits, stuckness

in life?

I myself will write another poem on this very matter. So.

If you are up for it, write something and link it back

to my comment section.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Prompt will be up till Sunday.

I wish you all, sincerely, a wonderful weekend.

franza

 

(PS: forgive my english, am not a native)

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body bags

18 of them, small
for bodies under 4 feet
lined up
with 6 full-size bags

how we tidy up loss
so neatly
& lifted easy

but only the flesh
is light
not the arms
that lift it

you can’t cart away
loudspeakered screams
they still ricochet

but now, they rest
they will wait, silent
they way only the dead
know silence

unable to count the tears
as easily as those lives lost
& the bags that hold
what’s left

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If you are not already reading Bart–you should be.

Bart Wolffe's avatarBart Wolffe

THE END OF GOSSIP, PLEASE

The world’s babble of so many mouths popping
With empty baubles, the chatter that monkeys make
With mouths grinning, God, I’m so tired of speech
That doesn’t cast spells or manifest miracles
But just blabber spilling from one void to another.
Put something to chew into that place instead,
Not gum like vacuous cows masticating the cud
In meaningless motions with glazed eyes
Biding time till the chop comes.
Add spice, some flavour that makes desire
Swell with the appetite for truth, for lust,
For an unwritten prayer that comes from within
And will ring resonating in the mind
Like waves crashing and thunderclaps
And the gasp of lovers in their final act.
Nothing less. Who has the power to open books
And bring dead men’s breath to life again?
Such is the priest of the uninterpreted
And the brother to pleading when oaths
Are…

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how to catch what won’t stay still

don’t try to define
what by nature is mutable,
not fixed, quicksilver
& led by Mercury

these feet slip traps (even
your careful ones)

easier
to run with
or a little ahead
of me, a game of tag
or a race

as I resist a chase
but love pursuit
of bright & shiny things

that’s how
you’ll catch me
dazzled, breathless

& thinking
it was me after you
all along

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muses

those 9 muses
the Greeks drew
in precise divisions of practice
never moved me,
coy & lolling at Apollo’s feet
in those pictures,
too busy flirting
to grant a whisper
in my ear

no, if art
is breathed, in
spired like cathedrals
pointing to sun &
embodied by anything
I shape, the 3 ancients
speak to me:

the craft birthed
from the movement of water,
cresting in waves
or rippled over rocks
speaks through my mouth
when she chooses, or
the song that strikes air
brighter than a cymbal–
that one rattles my bones
& then stokes language
to a hotter burn
so we can reel
inside the sparks
she stirs

& the last
who lives only inside voice,
that one wakes
when I hear you speak
& twines with my words
to answer you fully

Siculus can keep
his Ethiopian 9.

I know
what is important
always happens in 3’s.

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melting truths (the advent hymn)

this is a moment
of palpable faith–
heavy-woven in silk
intricate and darkly bright
like a 12th-century
advent hymn
carolling loomed yearning
past promise
& only satisfied with birth

veni, veni Emmanuel

Latin fills my house
heavy, scented with hope
& incense
softened with residua
of old prayer
whispered in the corners

this could be a chapel
with stained-glass truths
illuminating moments
precise & perfect
but fleeting
& lost in capture

a snowflake
vanishing in the heat of my palm

***You can listen to the song here–only time you will see a Christmas carol on my blog, probably 😉

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