Prompt Day 11: Why “you can’t go back home”
A Missing Year/s
There you go, my tiny diary,
as if I could go home when
I am now so grown.
Or this diary, bigger though it may be –
written; one page only.
What did I do with that elusive year?
I made a note that New Years’ Day;
just read Peter Pan – again!
Benita Kape © 11.4.2019
Prompt Day 10: to use a regional weather phrase.
There is Calm
there is the calm
and we wait
there is the calm
a few clouds no breeze
there is the calm
the birds cease their singing
animals, a dog’s loud bark
then silence
and we wait
the day is calm
it could be mild
it could be lukewarm
or distant thunder
those were the
explanations we later heard
there is the calm
a cracker of a day
were it not for the small fear
a tenseness
an intuition
some say served well
the eerie calmness
of earthquake weather
a world no longer still
though we remember always
before this: the calm
and then day turned to hell
Benita Kape © 10.4.2019
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