November 7, 2013 Writers Digest/ We Write Poems #182

For today’s prompt, write a hardship poem. The hardship could be moving forward after a tragic loss, having to work through a difficult problem, or even just showing up to work. It can be serious, funny, or complicated.

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Sail Away

When skies are blue

We'll board our boat

A teacup made for two

And sail away

We have known

Storms and rain

Drought and such

But now

We'll sail away

You'll wear your hat

I'll wear mine

Pulled down low

We'll board the cup

And sail away

As the wheel turns

We find the ocean dead

The butterfly trembles

Aboard our boat

We've sailed away

Note:  I am thinking,  we get through one difficult problem, only to find another.  It probably isn't about where we are, not geographical, wherever we go, there we are.

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We write Poems:  Prompt bridges....

There is a bridge

That is very tall

Far above the water

Small

It spans a crack

In the earth

Ripped long ago

A rift

If incase your ego

Grows and your hat

Fits no more

You go to that bridge

And you’ll feel small

The earth is grand indeed

Or if life gets too hard

And you want it to be over

Go to that bridge

It is calling you

And if you jump

It will all be over

There is no coming back

Note:  It is the Rio Grand Gorge Bridge in Taos, New Mexico.  Many people go just to look, but many people go to end it all.