Cold, Jagged, Piece
It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Tonight our mission is to write a NONET – a nine line poem that begins with 9 syllables, descending line by line to 1 syllable.
Select ONE of these 9 syllable lines as your opener (or more if you wish to write several nonets)
- It seems as though you are still summer (cite Merwin)
- Broken shadows across the cracked ground (cite Merwin)
- The earthed lightning of a flock of swans (cite Heaney)
- One side is wild with foam and glitter (cite Heaney)
I chose the second line, by William Stanley Merwin.
Broken shadows across the cracked ground
a monotone jigsaw puzzle
missing one cold, jagged piece
to complete the picture.
Rather than question,
most remain safe
within their
comfort
zone.
Dreamstime
a telling undercurrent under that cracked ground!
“missing one cold, jagged piece
to complete the picture.”
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Indeed there is! Thanks for stopping by, Laura!
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It seems we must remain within our comfort zones these days …. lovely writing.
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Thank you, Helen. 🙂
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It’s too easy to remain in your comfort zone rather question why the fires are burning.
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True, unfortunately.
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The “cold jagged piece” is a brilliant metaphor for a painful intrusion into comfort zones.
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Thanks so much, Dora. I hadn’t looked at it that way, but you are exactly right!
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