For today’s prompt, write a secret message poem. Maybe it’s a coded message, a message in a bottle, sign language, foreign language, etc. Confession time: I’m often (though not always) hiding messages in my poems, and nothing rocks my world more than when readers catch them.
Image of my Message in a Bottle Artists Book Project
In the Month of October
Alone on the seashore
I look down the beach
One direction
Then the other
The sky grey
Overcast
Gulls scream as
They dive toward the water
The tide has come in
I fold the paper into
The shape of a crane
Tuck the paper
Into a bottle
I imagine it's long journey
It will see fish
And all manner of sea creatures
It will keep the message
Safe through storms
At journey's end
When least expected
You will
Find it
___________________________
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Write
We Poems #184
Prompt:
Cultivating Old Memories
Beach Comb
for a Dream
Long
ago
Far
away
In
a land
By
the sea
You
and I
Lived
a dream
That
never
Happened
Blown
away
By
strong
Winds
from
The
South
If
only I
Could
Beach comb
On
a hot day
By
the sea
I
would
Find
the
Dream
The
boy
The
dog
The
fisherman
......and
his wife
2 comments:
I've always loved the idea of a message in the bottle myself it is quite romantic somehow. In the second poem I was particularly struck by "lived a dream that never happened" how often do we live in denial under illusions?
I LOVE your message in a bottle project - how gloriously wonderful. Sighed over your poem, too - especially over "at journey's end - you will find it". Wonderful, Annell.
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