What Else Could She Do?

April Poetry Month #07, I take a rest from haiku today  😉

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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

Liquidators, sevenling

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.

The liquidators at Chernobyl,

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.