Are we still here? Yes! Yes we are. We made it to #9 and I have a couple of regular players. Will you join them? Paint Chip Poetry is a blast! I promise I really do pick these words at random. At some point in the year I’m going to have to shuffle the deck and we’ll get some repeats, but that won’t be for awhile. It’s a pretty big deck.
Today the poetry prompt is six degrees of separation. I’m kind of surprised Kevin Bacon didn’t come up as one of the paint chip words, but then what color would Kevin Bacon even be? Anyway, the words or phrases to include in your poem are the red planet, orange you glad, strawberry, tornado, ice, olive branch, and in the dark. For this prompt, I’m going to require you to use in the dark and at least two other words or phrases.
Here’s my poem:
In the Dark
Many new moons
in the dark I mourned
lost and abandoned
yearning for a bridge
over the six-fold separation
between me and my God
betwixt me and wholeness
and healing and joy and comfort
A tornado of sorrow
ripped through my soul
torrents of teardrops
should have melted
my heart of ice and stone
but alas it was not so
in my pit of fury and hatred
Until . . . until
an olive branch
of mercy extended
offered with love
as the Lord proposed
I deign to forgive
and make peace with
a haunted past and live
my future in a land of
milk and honey and
strawberry fields
Now I recall
the gift of freedom
of grace and reconciliation
His cross a bridge
to peace for my soul
Your Turn
Okay, now it’s up to you to bring my number of regular players up past the 2 mark. Come on, you know you want to play. Post your poem in the comments, or on your blog and then include a link in the comments. I know I went the spiritual route, because it’s Lent, but I’ll give you extra points if you can work Kevin into your poem.