Today's prompt was so cool: take a random poem, cover all of it but the last line and write a line to respond to it. Then move to the second last line, write a line to respond and so on and so on until you have 'answered' all the lines of the poem.
I opened a poetry anthology randomly this morning and found this lovely poem from Marianne Moore to be my piggyback poem:
A Jelly-fish - Marianne Moore
Visible, invisible,
…a fluctuating charm
an amber-tinctured amethyst
…inhabits it, your arm
approaches and it opens
…and it closes; you had meant
to catch it and it quivers;
…you abandon your intent.
Charm
With resolve, you begin again.
Let it go, and the world stands still, shimmers.
Now it opens. I had never meant
to retreat, close down.
I live in it you know, your heart
a salmon-pink jewel,
flamboyant secret.
Unknown, known.
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