Silent Drama

This was written both as a response to this week’s Simply Snickers prompt (write a poem with the words secret and silent) and as a response to the following excerpt from Monday’s post on Lutheran Surrealism:

“Even more boring: I like to watch plants grow, and to see if I can catch them at it. Hard to make a drama out of such a thing.”

So…this is my attempt to make a drama out of such a thing. And a pantoum to boot. Enjoy.

-Nicole

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silent still still still
breathe in out still
freeze focus don’t blink
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When I Watch You

This was written for the new Read Write Poem Prompt this week – to write a poem using “when I watch you”, the first line of Lucille Clifton’s poem, “miss rosie”. I shut my eyes as the prompt instructed…and I ended up getting inside the head of Graham Dalton from the film “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”. Enjoy.

-Nicole

when I watch you
I see my failures
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