Prompt #90, It’s Post Your Poems Day!
Keepsakes like a breath
We Write Poems:
Write a poem out of nothing and everything. Keepsakes we keep of material things, reminding us of something else. So Gautami asked us to write a poem directly out of that memory, keeping out the material reminders.
Maybe this is another “tip of the iceberg”, that small visible face of something else far greater than what we more obviously see. Share with us now please how you found your path to address this poem prompt.
And thanks again to Gautami Tripathy for this fine prompt.
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We Write Poems 
I’m not sure if I kept out the material things.
keepsakes like a breath
It’s not a keepsake, but it is a material thing that means something more, and triggers memories. I tried to allow it the minimum of space in the poem.
http://www.thehappyamateur.com/2012/01/fight.html
Sunday my darlin’ Luscious asked what my prompt was for this weeks We Write Poems. Thanks to Guatami I said it’s about keepsakes. She said you don’t have keepsakes all you have is junk. I have to admit I do pick up interesting rocks and such. But, being the loving man I am I responded:”well, I have you.” I did get to watch the playoffs in peace and quiet Sunday. That brings me to this weeks prompt and “A thought” in Sestina form. Keep those keepsakes coming, material or otherwise. Hugs and kisses everyone (except you guys then it’s just a manly hugs), wink, wink.
OOps, the above is the wrong keepsake. Sorry, I just got out of bed and have not had my first cup of coffee. Here’s the correct link to “A thought”.
Who will remember? It’s posted here http://bit.ly/xC3QKy. Enjoy.
Hi all! Here’s mine for this week: http://ablefires.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/the-persistence-of-memory/
Interesting prompt. I ended up with unexpected memories visiting me…
Pamela
A Fedora and A Three-Piece Suit
Ended up with a Bouquet
for the Love of Humanity
Repeating that feat was difficult, even for me!
Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2012/01/escape.html
I flubbed it. Utterly.
http://wp.me/pdTja-2Bo
Memory-provoking prompt!! Here is memory bin
Arlington
Gray is for granite, the color of sorrow –
assembled in waves – row upon row.
Today the sun has returned burning away
the mists of the morning
where spirits linger, silent as breath –
breahe deeply the breath of your fathers.
and their fathers before them wave after
wave and sorrow as deep as an ocean.
“No more, no more” breathes the sigh
through the grass
“Enough” grunts the stones in the silence..
http://dannyearlsimmons.blogspot.com/2012/01/oregon.html
I don’t know where my link went. Here it is again: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/keepsakes-for-we-write-poems/
The best keepsake are the intangibles that stay with you throughout your life; The lessons we learn.
But sometimes, keepsakes are not enough to keep us from despair:
Into the Dark
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2012/01/into-dark.html
Great prompt. It’s been awhile. Thank you!
Mine is here:
Here’s mine…
Mine became the material, but it was inspired by the prompt:
http://keepingsecrets-karen.blogspot.com/2012/01/weight-of-memory.html
i know im late… always late…. but i so love this prompt, and every prompt… here’s mine… six more