Blue of a crisp
Cloudless
Sky seeming
A rich robe
Wrapping
To a distant horizon.
Clouds encroach
Shedding plenteous
Tears rolling down
Spilling as lightning
Releases cries of
Intense thunder
Unleashing
The held hidden hostage.
Anxiety, doubt, fear,
Tension filter like
Torrential rain filling
A hole in reality;
Swallowing
It all benign in
An effort to become,
Become relevant.
Gardens grow vibrant
As rainbows, delicate
As butterflies winging
Across the bruised
Evening
As the sun slowly
Sinks, a vessel
No one can bail.
Relentless people
Compel stories told
Before grudgingly
Retiring into
Comforting downy
Covers whose cost –
An unknowable secret
Paid by those who
Gave enfolding safety
Out of the blue.
© Jo Ann J. A. Jordan
Prompt:
- Take what time you will and free-write.
- Keep going for the period you have chosen.
- Do not worry over correctness; get the words out. You can come back later and edit.
Haphazard Creative 