I went to a poetry workshop today and I think I’ll use a prompt from it and the resulting poem. We generated five words and then traded those words with another. Then Betty Scott gave us a statement. Words: pendant, fir tree, otter, broom, blush. Statement: I wept for you.
I wept for you.
I saw you in the dust patterns,
Created as I swept;
Your spiritual essence embodied in the pentacle
Hanging from your neck.
Your neck was thick and furry
Flowing evenly into your otter body
As it curled beneath the fir tree.
I wept for you.
Not because your Earthly form
No longer blushes human.
I imagine you would love
Exploring our world
In the form of an otter.
What places you could go that I cannot!
What will be the taste of your first fish
Swallowed fresh from
A glacier-fed stream?
I see now that I never wept for you.
I wept for me.
Carol McMillan
April 16, 2013
