Wednesday writing prompt

[ashtoreth]

 Find something that is hard & try to put it on the page approaching it from a different angle.

fingers  empty  wooly  grasshopper  bottle   snow

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Guilty fingers, putting pen to page
black tracks that linger on snow white paper.

Defying my mind that flits from thought
to thought to thought, halting only for bouts of brooding
a resting grasshopper perched on an exposed vein of rock,
moving once more when the heart brushes it aside
wrapping the exposed tenderness in a woolly cocoon,
softening blows until no thing can reach it.

Guilty fingers, putting pen to page
black tracks that linger on snow white paper.

Might this be the nudging of my angels,
the vessel of their of their patience empty at last.
"Three days." The words vibrate the silence around me
deep echoing tones of breath blown over the lip of an empty bottle.
"You are allowed three days in the tomb and then you must rise.
This is the Law."

Guilty fingers, putting pen to page
reweaving the shroud into wings.

Comments

[bleodswean]

Very nice! I like the vision of the grasshopper on a vein of rock. I see it.

[ashtoreth]

Thank you so much.

I am processing through some shit at the moment, and every time I sit down and try to journal it, I just want to scratch my pen so hard it tears through the pages and then stab the notebook repeatedly until a) the pen breaks or b)my hand cannot stab it any longer. All of which are very unfair to the poor notebook, whose only part in this whole affair, is to exist.

Approaching it cattywompus has, at least, gotten me back to my journal.