Thursday 9 April 2015

Day 9: Visual Effect


Hmm. Today's prompt is to write a visual poem. With a specific shape relating to its subject matter. Not an easy task at all.

I love looking at these type of poems - but doing them? Well that's another matter. It's a question of what comes first the chicken or the egg i.e. - the poem's content or the structure? And VERY difficult I might add to do on the computer! But, in the spirit of sportsmanship, I'll give it a whirl. It sounds like challenging fun.




Letting Go

is often 
said to be some big    
brave gesture, certainty of
 closure in one heart-ripping effort 
of forced release. An once-off event. 
A leap into the abyss of emptiness. But 
there's more to it than that, more of a 
cumulative causality: every day a little 
letting go until the hand that's been 
holding the rope of regret so tight
softens its grasp, lightens its grip. 
You slowly, successfully forget. 
What you thought a balloon 
of hope is a harness 
holding you back. 
It drags you, 
you don't
 float.
          Until
                         one 
                                          day 
                              you
                 feel
      its 
                   pull
                               and
                                             say
                                                         no,
                             more.
                                              A 
                                     day 
                      you 
                                            know 
                                                            it's 
                                         time
                          to
              let 
                             it 
                                             go
                          just
       let
                                                             it
             go 
                           !
   
                                          
                                                          
  




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