Chasm
©April 29th, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
Chasm fracturing
Amidst unity on earth
Time to build a bridge.
But if the bridge falls
And we plummet to the earth,
Let us learn to fly.
If we fly upwards
Let us splint the fractured earth
Mend broken places.
If we fly downwards
Let us greet the earth with joy,
And begin again.
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Today is Day 29 of NaPoWriMo 2017. The prompt suggested choosing one word from a favorite poem – in my case, “Kubla Khan” by S. T. Coleridge. The rest of the prompt is below:
Today, I’d like to challenge you to take one of your favorite poems and find a very specific, concrete noun in it. For example, if your favorite poem is this verse of Emily Dickinson’s, you might choose the word “stones” or “spectre.” After you’ve chosen your word, put the original poem away and spend five minutes free-writing associations – other nouns, adjectives, etc. Then use your original word and the results of your free-writing as the building blocks for a new poem.