Five years ago today, I met up for cocktails with a fella I'd met several months before. We started telling each other our life stories, and ended up closing the place and going to his house and continuing to tell those stories until the wee, small hours of the morning.
Two years ago today, we were at that same fella's family beach house, watching as our cats luxuriated in the ocean breeze and afternoon sun on the screened porch. Unbeknownst to me, he was anxious, planning to propose the next day.
One year ago today, we spent the day lounging at the incredibly beautiful pool at our resort in Kauai, utterly relaxed and excited about our wedding the next day.
And today... well, let's just say that today's poetry prompt couldn't be more appropriate.
Today's Prompts: When we were kids we were told to color the objects the colors they are supposed to be; sky is blue, grass is green and so on. This prompt is about turning things inside out and upside down. Painting the sky purple, the grass pink and everything else any darn color you want. Allow yourself to get creative, paint a scene with your words, turn the world inside out. Write for ten minutes describing what your world looks like if it were inside out and upside down.
Word Prompts: Indigo, Tangerine, Vermilion, Midnight, Dusk
Poetry Type: The Pictorial, Mirrored Refrain (I went with Mirrored Refrain)
Art Imitating Life
Imagine a world, they said, where everything's wrong
Where up is down and inside, out
She need not imagine a world so skewed,
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
The sunrise that used to herald a bright new day
Now indigo, midnight - no brightening her mood
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
She need not imagine a world so skewed
She misses memories that will never be made
Such is the madness of grief's fallout
She need not imagine a world so skewed
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
She technically lives, although dead inside
A zombie, hungry not for brains but for her dead love - she's unglued
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
She need not imagine a world so skewed
She strives - so very hard - to give it a chance
For life, from her desiccated heart, once more to sprout
She need not imagine a world so skewed;
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
But life's lessons are harsh, and she learned them well
Love was never meant to be hers, she'll conclude
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
She need not imagine a world so skewed
Life may be a gift, but not for us all
For some, it's one long, torturous rout
She need not imagine a world so skewed;
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
Forever, they promised, to have and to hold
Then Fate snatched their forever and the love that they'd brewed
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
She need not imagine a world so skewed
Imagine, they said, and she stifled a laugh
A world where reality's twisted about
She need not imagine a world so skewed
Her former loving heart now beats only doubt
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