Wednesday 19 April 2017

The creation of words

Today's prompt is to write a poem about a creation myth. It can be about the creation of anything. Because words are a poet's closest companion, I've taken inspiration from, well, words...


The creation of words

Simple words
fell
                from
the
                sky

A poet passing by
picked them up
one
by
one

She placed them in her heart
and from them grew
a bouquet of words and phrases and sentences and paragraphs

Volumes began to pour from her finger tips
Streams of beautiful, flowing dreams flowed,
Dampening paper with dark ink as wet as
The tears that flowed from her eyes

Some words were lost,
Drowned in those tears
But others took root, strengthened and grew
To the ends of the earth

Where other poets
picked them up
one
by
one


 Andrea Vermaak


No comments:

Post a Comment