Gentle Breeze
In snowfall,
chipmunks nest,
await next snowfall,
wait to revive
chipmunks on the run
to see those walls melt.
Despite the celebration,
feel the gentle breeze
of forlorn memories
of your own loss,
thoughts of home.
Find comfort in its presence
in a final farewell.
MTB: In my end is my beginning, the prompt from Laura Bloomsbury at dVerse ~ Poets Pub was a frustrating one for me. Laura asks that we write a poem using the final line from each of our last 12 (or more) most recent poems (in any order). Each line must remain intact, with the only additions being preposition, conjunction, or change of tense to facilitate flow. And yes, frustrating, because 9 of my last 13 poems were haiku or haibun, pretty much a limiting factor.
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Well done, Ken! Frustrating as this kind of prompt may be, I love that it inevitably will take the writer beyond their usual constraints.
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Thanks, Lynne. It did make me look at things differently, and I’m sure I can use parts of this as a base to make something more cohesive.
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You have masterfully overcome any challenging aspects of this prompt, Ken. Outstanding compilation.
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Thank you, sir!
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I had the haiku hurdle as well … you managed it beautifully, Ken.
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I see that. Well done. And thank you. 🙂
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You did well, Ken! Sometimes less is more.
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Thanks, Dwight.
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You are welcome!
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It makes sense to me, Ken. It probably has something to do with my totem animal: the chipmunk 😉
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Thank you, Lisa. And I have more than a few spare chipmunks I could send your way. 😀
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Fall shish-ke-bob!
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Nice transition from chipmunks to human. How fun to read all of these!
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Thank you. It was quite a challenge.
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You can never go wrong with chipmunks nesting in snow!! The gentle breeze pulled me in and I enjoyed reflecting on those last lines! 👏👏
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Thank you.
I didn’t expect to tie it all together, but I guess I did, somehow.
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I love that poetry can seem so abstract on one level, but we create our own meanings as the reader and it will make sense to those who resonate!
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Magic!
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💯
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such a comforting and delightful composite poem you made Ken – the challenge is like the grit the oyster needs to make a pearl!
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Thank you, Laura. I like that analogy.
And thanks for the prompt. As others have noted, thinking out of the box can be a good thing.
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I’m with you on this one, Ken. If poems like this ‘work’ it’s entirely fortuitous. I can see your poetry here, behind the filter, in the snow and the natural world, and your attachment to family and home.
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Thank you, Jane.
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Nice one Ken. Thanks for dropping by to read mine.
Much💜love
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Thank you, Gillena. 🙂
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Beautiful! I can’t believe all your last lines gelled so well. Bravo!
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😀 Thank you!
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You are so welcome. 😊
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This really has your voice, especially that last stanza. (K)
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Thank you. My mind has been there lately, maybe because of the editing I recently finished for my book.
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There is much comfort in the last stanza. Well done with this new found poem.
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Thank you, Grace.
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wonderful how the snippets mesh together so well ❤
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Thank you.
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Fantastic compilation, Ken! The poem in its entirety is so moving ❤❤
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Thank you, Sanaa.
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I like the connection of “home” and nesting that tie the two stanzas together. Made me think of the little guy, “Chippy” living under my porch. A tough challenge to work with terse haiku lines but you rocked it.
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🙂 Thank you, Mish.
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The two parts work together. It all sounds like you–nature and home.
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Thank you, Merril. 🙂
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You’re welcome, Ken!
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I hadn’t considered how it might be a challenge as you say, but had you not said it I’d be none the wiser, this works so well, flows and speaks.
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😀 Thank you, Paul.
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This works perfectly… and great with the scene that evokes all the emotions of that final line.
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Thank you, Björn.
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