Day #25 for Na/GloPoWriPo as National Poetry Month draws to a close. Today's prompt suggests we take a line from someone else's poem and riff a poem off that. I'm going to dive into some old blog posts of mine and find a poem and pull a line and ... we have a winner! I'm starting with a line from the long poem that makes up Susan Andrews Grace's book, Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being.
Life Shuffles By
A snail shell stripped to beauty,
a rosebud on the cusp of opening,
a tongue about to speak—
the ruts and seams of
life
shuffles by, old and obscure
prop up the brash and new,
or vice versa, heads shaken,
someone frowns, echoes warn
/inform what lies
ahead/
/are told
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1 comment:
Wonderful write, I loved the creative word-weaving at the ending, and there was something about imagining a snail stripped to beauty.
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