The Abandoned Survivors

16 January 2021 Saturday Poetry Prompt: series potential

I Death fills in all the gaps sets up its little piles of misery along the beach Trading lies has stopped entirely the romance hits a note

II Food becomes the belly of another person blood just a new wine a deference that has been lost along with the heirs of this madness

III Survivors haven’t come this far before don’t remember how to work with the wood carving grasses into the strips of a salvation Or not

IV The reminisce leaves everyone bitter hidden behind the pictures that they no longer have no longer have the fingers to pull them out of the caves and couldn’t see properly anyway

V The image of longing for home has been swept under the rocks troubling no one now

VI Death goes for a ride over a hill a hill to nowhere and now it’s just a matter of waiting till death decides to come back

J.D. Harms 2021

Prompt:

Today’s prompt gives a format, and not a subject. To respond to series potential, create a piece that is made up of several small works, in a series. It can be a collection of images that come to you, or a narrative work. The subject is entirely up to you. Tag me in it (J.D. Harms). I look forward to reading the responses! Rock on, write on!

Evan Wildstein Viraji Ogodapola janny’s heart Nathaniel Laydon Matthew Leo Ben Murphy Wilfreda Edward Enne Baker Connie Song Karen L. Jones Kristie Darling Mary Jones Upen Singh Nikhil Maziar Ghaderi Aspen Blue Mahnoor Chaudhry Barry Dawson IV Lola Sense Lori Lamothe MDSHall Bradon Matthews Ian Cunnold Patrick M. Ohana Amy Jasek Zay Pareltheon Eli Snow Jessica Lee McMillan Ema Dumitru Kristen v.H. Middleton Iva Hotko Hannah Dziura Janaka Stagnaro Joseph Lieungh Joseph Coco Samantha Lazar Paroma Sen Mimi Bordeaux Jasmine Abbi. Sydney Duke Richey Sydney J. Shipp Camille Fairbanks Kevin E. Pittack Jr. Georgia Lewitt Louis Dennis Lowell Woluchem Imad Vera Hadzic Dennett Jay Sizemore Charlotte Allan Victoria Ponte Carolyn Riker Samuel Clarke Gurpreet Dhariwal Dermott Hayes Dr. Jackie Greenwood Ray Lobo Rosy Rane Qalam Dana Sanford Suntonu Bhadra Suzanne V. Tanner Johanna Geary Joanna Vang Tre L. Loadholt Jenine Bsharah Baines Josie Elbiry AK (Aaska Aejaz) Johannes Mudi Ana-Maria Schweitzer Ann Marie Steele Kim Cullen Sarah E Sturgis Simran Kankas C.J. Obikile Ronald Mathew Gerardo Rene Paz Rhonda Marrone Aaron Quist Mohan Boone Angelina Der Arakelian Amanda Dalmas Daniel A. Teo Kira Dawn Gaston King Alex Guenther Rebecca Ruth Gould Laura Misener Akhtar Mehmood Andrea Juillerat-Olvera