A Writing PROMPT

Find below details of a local poetry competition to enter, judged by Iggy Mc Govern.Fingal Poetry Festival

And a writing exercise.

Take a familiar object

Write down everything you associate with it

Colour, texture, smell, touch...

And Hey Presto- A Poem.

 

Here's my effort:

 

You are sandpaper to the touch

and smell of sissal

 

Your fibres cut like paper cuts

and leave bare feet scoured

 

You are pocked and cratered

from use and abuse

 

You witness comings and goings

and hesitations on thresholds

 

You could tell a story or two

if you had a mind to

 

You endure hot coals and cat claws

You are the one who puts up with

 

The one who endures...

You are a door-mat

 

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