Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Pain in his heart to be witnessing

                                                                                   Attribution: Nekneeraj
Image: Cruising aimlessly

11 of 12 given words:
naked pain tighten sparrow electrify wait
kudoclasm (feels like your life is flashing before your eyes, but it’s actually the opposite)
somaticize (verb - to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms)
aberrant (behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group)
shaft (a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel)
deadbolt (a type of lock that you need a key to open)

Misconstrued of his naked intentions
Just cruising around to while away his time
Pain in his heart to be witnessing how
it tightened around the sparrow's neck

A flash in the darkened night
At the spot it was electrified
A kudoclasm imposed in a long wait
to be somaticized with a sudden force

Life and death snuffed out in aberrant fashion
Shoved in a manner into a shaft of emptiness
How a wayward little bird met its end in the dark
There was no necessity of a deadbolt
to provide a clean passage of demise

Nekneeraj's at MLMM's Photo Challenge #150 (here)
Kerry's at Real Toad's the tuesday platform

13 comments:

  1. Life can be snuffed out in the blink of an eye, whether little birds or humans.

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  2. That was such a vivid poem... poor sparrow.

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  3. Tragedy; I'm always intrigued with your word craft in response to those wordles

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  4. Those words are jaw-breakers! Well done for placing them in context of your poem.

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  5. Poor little bird, it goes so quickly.

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  6. What an intense moment you drew for a poor little bird. Bravo!

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  7. Did I just read a bird killed by lightning? Or a car? Either way, he never knew what hit him.

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  8. The thought of death being snuffed out gave me pause... I'm not sure I've ever thought of it.

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  9. Excellent word content poem Hank.

    Yvonne.

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  10. Life here one moment gone the next. We must make the most out of temporary.

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