Here’s my response to Brian Vos’s Weekly Poetry Prompt on http://www.brianvos.com (https://brianvos.com/2022/04/15/lines-to-get-started-your-weekly-poetry-prompt/). This week’s challenge: Use the following lines as opening lines for a poem or write whatever comes to mind.
Brian’s lines:
‘Though captains come and go,
the ships can still sail on.
Though ships have found the bottom,
the destinations are not gone.’
Here’s what I made of them:
Opening lines
Come or go,
leave traces, don’t bother,
find the bottom, if you wish,
the lowest,
never a final destination.
There’s deeper,
right to Earth’s core,
further,
beyond the last, faint horizon.
Each ship, sail, step,
a possibility of hope
between trip and wreck.
Come or go,
you don’t need to know.
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This definitely captures the existential feeling of smallness that I see in those suggested lines.
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I liked the challenge, Brian. I’m always looking forward to your weekly prompt.
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I like where you took the prompt.
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Thanks, Jenna!
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