Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Watershed


A setback
she didn't foresee,
the first alone,

Watershed

She writes her memories
in a cardboard covered notebook

fireflies in the moonlight
footprints from overshoes
sunlit days on highway drives
their lifeblood lovers

Backdrop/children
noisemakers underfoot

Her onetime taleteller
gone underground

How many hours
does the timekeeper give?

Before she can join
her sidekick
again


"ellecee"




Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
from Kerry
The word challenge for our month of April Madness is to use compound words in constructive and imaginative ways.


Day 6

12 comments:

  1. This is sad but a wonderful use of compound words. I like it!

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  2. Beautiful poem Linda. I am left utterly speechless..!!

    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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  3. Waiting, waiting. Glad she is writing it all down while she waits.

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  4. A sad little tale, Linda, repeated often. Well written, clever use of the word "Watershed" It also happens with divorce except there didn't come with the 'underground' and generally not the kids with the guy. But that probably makes it worse, not having the kids (very often). Been the later except better because the kids were with a LOT.
    ..

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  5. This seems to me to suggest a life that has been interrupted by life... I can relate to that feeling.

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  6. That watershed is not one we wish for... hope there are sidekicks to be found again.

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  7. I see those "fireflies in the moonlight," especially. A lovely image captured.

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  8. I love the way in which she writes her memories, the things that appear on the pages of her notebook, the way her attention goes from one thing to another, but in the end, she's just marking time... until things turn back to her kind of normal again.

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  9. Oh, very nicely crafted! And I think many of us will relate to what you describe.

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  10. The backdrop kids...that gets me. Well written.

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  11. Oh those interruptions...I can't write with a backdrop of noise. Great write!

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  12. The first alone - it seems so very uncomfortable - notebooks are friends and yet the cardboard seems tough..maybe with use it will soften and be a gentle and welcome companion - beautifully written

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