I'm trying something new, taking a risk this month - participating in#VerseLove with Sarah Donovan,
hoping to write poetry every day this April.
Today's poetic inspiration is Richard Siken's poem "Detail of the Woods." Our challenge is to write a ten line poem, considering the following -
"Try to describe the importance of this place or what is happening there from an inside perspective, without explicitly stating it. Include punctuation after each line. Try to limit each stanza to one or two lines. Feel free to use anaphora to create some repetition. Title the poem 'Detail of' your setting."
Detail of the Creek
In the quiet, there is only the gurgling water,
as it ripples over the rocks and around the bend, downstream.
You are a treasure.
Even mourning is a celebration,
raising a toast to the beauty of the world.
Words to page offers sweet peace,
sweet peace within walls.
This is a cracking open, a breaking apart, a widening of the void
between what we have always believed and what is real.
The gentle breeze moves me somewhere altogether new.
