✍️💞NaPoWriMo 2024 – April’s write a poem a day💞✍️ Day 16💞✍️16/04/24

Written by Carolyn Crossley VixenOfVerse

#NaPoWriMo

Here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does. The “surprise” ending to this James Wright poem is a good illustration of the effect we’re hoping you’ll achieve. An abstract, philosophical kind of statement closing out a poem that is otherwise intensely focused on physical, sensory details.

Happy writing!

HOME - (anaphora)

Home was a worn sofa
where we used the arms
to ride horses across fields.

Home was a Sheltie called
Shep, waiting for his walk
in the park, so well trained.

Home was where I could
be myself, ask endless
questions, Mum answered.

Home was where Dad 
would never lend us money;
he chose instead to give it.

Home was a room shared
with my sister, secret hopes
and dreams were exchanged.

Home was Dad's Ulster Fry
on a cold Sunday morning.
We loved the potato cakes.

Home was Mum's infinite 
patience when explaining
'problems' for my maths class.

Home was a welcome haven
where friends were encouraged
with milky coffee and chat.

It can never be reproduced, only
recreated.

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