Fragmentary Yellow - A Magpie Tales Inspired Poem

Lighthouse Dandelions by Jamie Wyeth - This week's poetry prompt from Magpie Tales

One of the things I love about writing poetry to prompts is I never know where the images or suggested words will take me. In this case – with Magpie Tales weekly prompt – it is nearly always an image either a painting or a photograph – and this week it was as if I cut a hole in my belly and let the stuff that had been sitting there, waiting, to pour forth.

Perhaps a bit “rough drafty” feeling to me – I offer you today’s (as of now untitled and raw, off my pencil) poem.

Oh - and please visit the Magpie Tales blog to check out other's interpretations of the same image. It always surprises me to see the directions we go... almost always completely different.

 

 

 

Overexposed and wan, smeared with butter

Shadows have snatched the scorched leaves

And stolen their voices whatever is old is new again

So the wrinkled cliché says

Mocks

Chants

Sings

Pallid, ashy, frail lyrics while

The space underneath her ear

aches, the space where the

last bit of skin was stretched

to cover the skin not so

magically evaporated with

The

Cancer

“We got it all,” they said

A pregnancy of time gone by

Leaving behind only

Trailing ribbons of ecru ache

Tied up behind her ear

The cries of the stillborn baby

Still ringing from her womb

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