Poetry Wednesday; Poetry Pals #57 - half finished poems

Works in progress

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Poetry Pals

was thinking about unfinished poems this week, or was it last week? I’m not sure, the days have been meddling into each other recently. What with resting because of my MECFS, recovering from expending energy, having frogs demand clothes be made, and trying to g to write I’ve hit the old AUDHD block and done almost nothing.

I find the odd line, wrangle with it for a bit and then lose interest. I’m having to wait quite a while to get any itch to get back to it.

The poem below starting off as just the first line, then it got extended, then I reduced it, then I extended it but differently. It still doesn’t say what I want it to convey. But it’s a draft. A start.

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Turbulent Times (2025)  

A Mother delivers tears for breakfast
pouring it silently into the glass
Serves deep long sighs for lunch
thinly sliced obediently arranged 
carefully on the long thin platter
Presents patient resistance for dinner
sprinkled liberally but hidden 
alongside the salt and pepper
It’s as much as she can manage
As much as she is allowed

And there we are. That’s all for this week, ta-ra Tx

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