Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
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April Poetry Month #07, I take a rest from haiku today 😉
1. Poetic Asides – Sevenling
2. NaPoWriMo.net – all lines but the last: declarative sentences, last line: a question
For one thing, she had a car.
She needed a house.
She wanted a child.
Actually, she found a hotel.
She moved in to new life.
She didn’t lose her dreams and her story.
What else could she do?
© 2013, Mariya Koleva
The plan was to write a sevenling, which is a seven-line poem structured in tercets and containing the element of three. Yet, the three-line nature of tercet and the three-someness induced me to make it contain three tercets, so it went out of form. For the Poetic form challenge I edited it, leaving out the second tercet. Here, however, I publish it in its entirety.
reservists, workers, coal-miners –
some eight hundred thousand lives
–
Wasted – some died on site,
some died within a month
and others lingered on, oh – so on,
–
Went there for their children
who could live on, and play, and mourn
without them even
–
While we just profited by it.
(а ние просто се възползвахме) where you will read the Bulgarian poem, which is not a sevenling.