POEM STARTER
Write a poem where the opening line is about the colour you are wearing.
Think about all the connotations and symbolism your colour may have.
Bare For The End Of It All
Bare
I can’t—
Bear it
How can you bear this pain
The numbness pacing in my chest
How quickly your words fill my brain
I thought I was tired enough to let it rest
Explain
I can’t
Explain it
How can you say goodbye
When we were fireworks and rain
I didn’t really think I’d cry
I didn’t believe in love enough to think of pain
Kill
I can’t
Kill it
I thought you loved me enough for trying
The gape of empty, empty space
Like shrivelled nerves, rough cut wiring
Deadened by a name and a face
End
You can
End it
I said could, should, would
You took my mercy
Offered by thoughts of you, kind and good
I never thought your back was something I’d see
Quiet
I can’t
Stand it
Memories turn thin and blackened
Poisoned by their own golden fever
I guess I got too far under your skin
Without making up myself to be your receiver
Goodbye
I can’t—
I thought the start was clever and an apt opening for the next stanza, but the rest of those short repeated words didn’t make as much sense?
Loved ‘we were fireworks and rain’ - it evokes sight, sound, the feel of rain, the temperature, excitement, cold, so many things at once - very nice metaphor. More like this throughout the rest of the piece would be awesome!
Good job, keep it up! 😊
