06 Apr
06Apr

the seasons that travel in the air and soil

also stow away in the sea

in the hibernating sleep of great bears

the lazy summer sipping of the shore -

in fall turns to greedy grey gulps

it has woken from the wrong side 

of the ocean bed – a turtle snapping

its sharp beak-like crests, while foaming

in rabid frenzy. the angry god

in its breast demands its annual sacrifice 


once wintered back to digest in slumber

we check which house has been forfeited

to appease its wet hunger



Saffron – 6th April 2021


I used as a working title: Each year a house is lost, or partially wrecked by the sea (Instructions for Visitors, Helen Stevenson)

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Napowrimo Prompt Day 6:

Our prompt yesterday asked you to take inspiration from another poem, and today’s continues in the same vein. This prompt, which comes from www.hlwalrath.com,  Holly Lyn Walrath, is pretty simple. As she explains it:

Go to a book you love. Find a short line that strikes you. Make that line the title of your poem. Write a poem inspired by the line. Then, after you’ve finished, change the title completely.I encourage you to read Walrath’s full post, which has some other ideas for generating new poems based on pre-existing text.

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