free verse-club challenge-This Sounds Like
Free Verse Collection 2
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Then, Let Go
by michaelcahill Poem of the Month contest entry
a bird's shadow
dances on a cloud
but I don't understand
I know the stars are there
but phantom wings
whisk them behind
the forming shapes
lovers
drifting
as though the wind
were spiteful
I dive into the Sun
for solace
and now I'm blind
for wet earth
is a stinging compress
to opened eyes
I follow my heartbeat
it pounds relentlessly
without empathy
it brings me
here
if I were a sailboat
it would all be
just a picture
an escape
but the din of life
surrounds me
muffled and suffocating
now I do see the bird
I lift my arms
but they are not
delicate
blue is everywhere the sky's illusion the ocean's unopened cover
I knock
"welcome"
is a myth
I draw your name in the sand
releasing you
to the next arriving wave
but you can't
be erased
Author Notes
This challenge is simple. Listen to the music and write what it leads you to write. Please pay the videos themselves no mind ... just listen. A free verse poem, of course, using all the poetic devices at your disposal. Discussion and questions always encouraged. Start a thread, we all love to talk. :)) Instructions. Listen to the first version and type thoughts, impressions. Listen to the second version and record thoughts, impressions and combine the two into an atmospheric poem. As always, you cannot do this wrong. Whatever occurs to you is right. As we've already seen, the variety and quality this group comes up with is simply amazing.
