
Sometimes it’s absolutely plain and simple .I am sitting in the garden and this enters my mind:
Random apples
Fall Silently
On unknown Newtons
That was it.
Sometimes I get a sentence,usually a line of song with music which I hum.
Quite often it is not the first line,but a middle line.I write it down when I get home:
Your words have cut my heart like freezing snow
Then I have to decide what kind of poem.It suggests a villanelle to me so I have to get a first line
I opened your last letter with no clue
I like half rhymes
I opened your last letter with no clue
Eating in my garden by the pond
Your sentence cut my heart like freezing snow
I have changed the last line as sentence implies judgement as well as a structure of words
Snow and pond have a lot of rhyming words so I think I can use this stanza to begin
The Letter sent by a coward
I opened your last letter with no clue
Eating in my garden by the pond
Your sentence cut my heart like freezing snow
I opened your last letter then I knew
I mistook your words,I had been conned
I opened your last letter with no clue
My heart beat wildly wondering what to do
My eyes went blind, your hatred was unearned
Your sentence spat on me like hail and snow
Round my mind, like birds emotions flew
No cause nor explanation I discerned
I opened that last letter with no clue
My face turned white,my voice was muted so
Silently, I staggered from my chair
Your sentence cut my soul like freezing snow.
What helps us when we have such pain to bear?
Will we want to live or love or care?
I opened your last letter with no clue
Your sentence, like a rod, beat me anew
I shall leave it like this.I might post it because if I imagine another person reads it I can see it more objectively and may see weaknesses.Sometimes I change it when I move it to a poetry website.
