Linking with the wonderful Word Garden Word List Prompt #2 (Plath) created and hosted by the amazing poet Shay aka Fireblossom. Each week we have a theme, and this time it is Sylvia Plath.
Come join us!
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is
because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ~ Sylvia Plath
In my heart even the moon is counterfeit
It falls into the shadows
Appears with no warning like a maniac
Just to leave again, like daddy when he is
drunk
I don’t brag but that is how I learned
to dither in the gobbledygoo of idiots
First I mailed the letters never written
To the lilies in the forgotten valley
For they were dehydrated like water from an empty
pool
A thirst I could understand
Then I tossed paper planes to nowhere
and sang words that only coiled in
weariness
like a lioness after a futile hunt
When we learn to exist in the silence
we can sometimes exit by that same piercing secret
How do broken hearts and minds mend?
I ask repeatedly to no one that is truly hearing
the peacocks are busy cocking
But the blueberries and empty space listen
Sadly I am no longer hungry for what they provide.
I love the paper planes to nowhere, and the theme that continues after that. It all fits perfectly with your opening quote. Thanks so much for being part of my word list prompt, Carrie!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Shay!! I am delighted to participate. I am really loving the word lists!!
Delete"When we learn to exist in the silence /we can sometimes exit by that same piercing secret .." Very reminiscent of Plath, Carrie. I agree with Shay about the opening quote. Enjoyed this very much.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Joy!
DeleteFirst of all, kudos for using all of the words (I prefer blueberries to blackberries too personally! :-D) and secondly to make them all hang together with such coherent beauty is remarkable. I enjoyed this very much!
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Awww thank you Sunra!
DeleteGoodness, you constructed such a powerful poem by using every word on the list. "When we learn to exist in the silence we can sometimes exit by that same piercing secret " Love that line. I think I must have channeled the place you were in because my poem speaks to that quote.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much my friend! I absolutely love yours! Powerful writing Susie!
Delete"In my heart even the moon is counterfeit" - fantastic. Perfect opening line.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Qbit!!
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