It’s the second day of National Poetry Writing Month and my offering this time didn’t take long to complete.
The prompt was a nudge towards the surreal which delighted me. It was suggested, like the Romanian-born poet Paul Celan once did, we write a series of surrealist questions and answers and from this, craft a poem.
I loved doing this, sitting in an area of our kitchen I call ‘poetry corner’, with a cuppa, relishing the Spring sunshine streaming in through the patio doors. My resulting poem surprised me.
Take a look here if you are interested in trying this exercise yourself: https://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-10/
Thank you for reading.
Pathway to Love
There is a mysterious cloth
darned and patched with jute .
Fear in disguise.
Protecting me from the silent
arrow aimed at my heart.
What if I chose to listen
to the echo from the Universe?
To discard the armour.
Know the spear already piecing
my soul is in truth a pointer.
A pathway to Love.
LyndyH 