Boldly treading on words,
they leap forward, sideways,
longways and shortways,
Casually bending gentle young bones
and warping time with their
bounding laughter,
they thoughtfully crash with
Silence
is not their friend.
The expansively small minds
encase magnificent wishes
that hang in their ducts
of innocence behind glasses
of blue colour.
Flashing tenuous tempers
Running with flashing losses of hopes
and disquiet realisations,
their palour of cheek blurs
and mixes angry pinks with pale innocence,
angry naivety washes
uncreased dimples,
to let cracked wishes
weep away the stain
of dreams that never came.
Author notes
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“O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words,
So gay against the greater silences
Of dreadful things you did: O hang the head,
Impetuous child with the tremendous brain,
O weep, child, weep, O weep away the stain,
Lost innocence who wished your lover dead,
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.” –
W.H.Auden, Britten: Hymn to Saint Cecilia.
A contest entry
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Comments
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Very nice ...
but I wonder if you actually read the poem I said to use for a prompt?
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ahh nicely done love, this is a great write indeed... the form of it was original and kept me hooked!
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aah, to be a kid again. This was well written and very descriptive. I enjoyed. Thanks for entering and good luck
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I did not see the prompt that you used but I could feel the movement of children very good write and thank you for your entry and good luck in the contest
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Depicts children at play well. It's cute. It doesn't specifically address single motherhood, autism or poverty but it does describe children in a cute and descriptive way.
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Yea, I saw "children" and just wanted you to read it, sorry if you don't want it - I'm just pleased with something I wrote.
Hope the situation improves.
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Thanks for entering my contest!
darlintlc
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