Today's prompt is yesterday's: to take words from a news story and reassemble some or all of them (splice and dice, repeat if need) into a poem.
So I googled top stories of the day (trying to avoid the disastrous and tragic ones and steer towards something light-hearted) and couldn't resist this one from the NY Times about the debacle of the 'love-locked' bridges in Paris - whether they are a romantic expression beloved of the city or an eyesore and practical nuisance.
Oh, and I decided to flip the theme too.
On Bridges in Paris, Clanking With Love
Bridges of melancholy
spanning forever
lock horror
heartbroken proof
in people.
Stage-set panels
of battles
reconstruct
love-locked hawkers'
sculpture.
Years sag
beneath the weight
of sacrifice,
shadow gestures
clanking. Thousands
of tossed names,
metallic tumor
of suffering
attached
forever.
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