Home Again
something
happens it does not matter what it is cataclysmic
brings great change
in your life what was before will never be again
the world you see is
different a new beginning of sorts your insides have been ripped
blood on the
streets you are left naked with no ability to sprout
wings
wings
to fly from the
scene your first steps will be tentative you enter a new age
all that you knew is
forgotten yet you will be stalked by memories
ugly words
spoken evil lose in the city you walk the plains
seeking safety you
look for the red rocks ask for clarity
follow the
river leave discord behind a new adventure is just
beyond
beyond
your reach for
it close your hand around it you are home again
November 29, 2015
Note: This week I have tried to put all the prompts together. For the Writers Digest, November PAD challenge the prompt was: A poem as an open letter. The words from The Sunday Whirl and the words from Sundays Whirligig. I wasn't able to use all the words, but most of them, and to offer it to Poets United.
13 comments:
Such strong palpable images. Powerful write.
One rule in life - look to the future! What's passed has passed, move on. Lecture over! Great write by the way.
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"a new adventure is just / beyond"...a beautiful and positive force to carry on....
The road is always that one-way street... sometimes we can enjoy a ride, at other we need to walk... but as long as there is something like a home....
"You are left naked/with no ability to sprout wings". That describes the emotions so perfectly. I love the idea of seeking clarity from the red rocks and following the river towards a new phase of the journey. All one can do sometimes. Home again. Safe.
What a beautiful heartfelt poem with so much truth....these great changes do seem cataclysmic at first but soon bring us back to our true selves again...love the journey here.
This strongly emotive poem put me in mind of a loss of innocence much regretted. Just beautiful.
Yes, even if you move on, those memories DO continue to 'stalk' a person! I like the idea of thinking that a new adventure is just beyone!
You have created such an effective sense of process.....of journey.
Often finding your true home is a hazardous journey but reaching it such a relief.
We close our hands around that which we need most--and often in the dark--this is gorgeous and so emotive
This speaks well for every prompt, and stands alone beautifully.
There is indeed no place like home - it is not a place or necessarily people but a feeling inside...i read the story between the lines and in the lines and i saw so much ..thank you
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