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POEM STARTER
Write a poem that could be titled ‘Cloudy’.
Whether you stick with weather imagery, or explore emotive ideas, try and keep this title in mind as you write.
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A little cloud
High oh so high
I wish to feel it’s softness,
From that image in the sky.
Like cotton candy, looking oh so soft and sweet,
Though I know deep down, we simply wouldn’t meet
If I brushed my hand right by,
It’s just water
but in my mind
I can pretend,
It holds the comfort of a friend....
you feel so far,
far off the ground.
with skin so gray,
gray with piercing mist.
you feel so heavy,
heavy rain runs down your feet.
with a voice of malice,
malice to warn the peaks.
then there is light,
light with fire and ash.
with a spark of death,
death to the life you drown.
you watch the flood,
flood of fleeing children.
with winds to tear,
tear into homes.
at last there is silenc...
Cloudy ignorance blooms under the turbulent turquoise sky of silver
It hangs above my head like an umbrella
Ignorance is bliss
A thick skin of grey protected me
Cloudy grey morality blinds my eyes
Sometimes it is better for the blind to lead the blind
A bystander I was
A bystander to be
It is better to stand with my eyes closed,
Then to crawl with my eyes open...
The path forward is cloudy.
An impenetrable fog
Has risen from the earth.
I find myself in a strange place,
on my hands and knees,
feeling about for obstacles,
blind to the space before me.
Once in my hand,
A flashlight —
now a land mine.
How did I get here?
Would I recognize
Anything around me
If I could see?
Would I recognize myself?
I can’t turn back
To retrace my steps
For they ...
"strangers" that word hurts just to say ,strangers when they use to people that spoke to each other everyday.strangers when they walk pass each other ,they were so close but yet so far away.
two hearts as one until something pushed them to change,life came in and said they were both to blame ,the barbaric words they both spat at one another put there love story to shame ,they tried to make it wo...
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