For dVerse Meeting the Bar — Five Leavings from Home
For dVerse Poets Pub – Where Laura is our host.
MTB poetry prompt today, leaving home, the central compass point of departure,
thus:
25 lines
5 stanzas –
1st stanza is your home (real or imaginary)
next 4 stanzas – each compass point away from your home
5 lines per stanza – quintainsyllabic structure, optional rhyme
(Crown Cinquain) *ORunrhymed and unstructured (Pentastitch) the title should begin or include: “Five …………”Guidance: Remember this is poetry – avoid making your poem sound as descriptive as a travel or map guide.
MTB: Five Leavings from Home
Five Directions from Home
For dVerse Meeting the Bar — Five Leavings from Home
Home
Behind the green door, the kettle sings,
five cats negotiate the morning light.
Bella guards the threshold of our little world,
while mountains hold the silence in their palms,
and I have learned that roots can grow in sand.
North
The wind carries whispers of Norwegian rain,
of fjords that cradled my childhood dreams.
I left beneath a sky of winter stars,
but somewhere in the mountains of my memory,
a younger me still waits for spring.
East
Beyond the sea, my father’s shadow lengthens,
beside an empty chair beneath the Bulgarian sun.
Some distances cannot be measured in miles,
and every unanswered telephone
becomes a road I wish I could travel.
South
The desert opens like an ancient book,
its pages written in forgotten tongues.
I follow the footsteps of those who wandered,
until the wind erases every name
except the one my soul remembers.
West
The Atlantic gathers all my leavings,
carrying them towards the setting sun.
I stand where land surrenders to the ocean,
and understand that every road I’ve taken
has taught my heart another way of home.
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