This weekend's Trifextra challenge at Trifecta is simply to write a poem, in 33 words, 3 lines, or 3 stanzas. I went for the 33 word option.
What now?
What if?
A mistake
to ask.
We would.
We could.
A mistake
to suggest.
She left,
Afraid.
The sunlight
was cold,
The memory
small, dark.
The price:
Nothing at all,
Finally.
Now this is something!
ReplyDeleteI love the story between the lines.
ReplyDeleteNice:
"A mistake
to suggest.
She left,
Afraid"
That's a lot of sadness in 33 words. Well done!
ReplyDeleteBut the price of nothing could well be everything. I felt like this persona lost without ever trying. Very Prufrockian. (OF COURSE that's a word. I'm an English teacher, and I said so.)
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ReplyDeleteHaunting and lyrical.
ReplyDeleteYou did a lot with 33 words. What I like about it is that there isn't much there, but in my mind, I see an entire story about a relationship gone wrong (I see her as pregnant and it ending with abortion or adoption.) You could've had something completely different in mind when you wrote it, but that's the fun thing about poetry.
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