Another one from #PoetryToGo, this time a one-word challenge: “`Happiness´. Can you write something from that?”
“Well, yes, but it could head off in all sorts of directions, so: what does happiness mean to you?”
“People leaving me alone.”
“Er, I can take a hint, if…”
“I suppose that´s quite rude, but I didn´t mean you…” and she went on to rhapsodise on what I can only describe as the serenity of solitude, the peace to think about past and future rather than present, requested a 10-ish line free verse poem, manually typed on green card:
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Walk me into light.
This silence sings,
And brings me into a
Core of peace.
Release the busy clutter,
The bright bustle of polyphony,
The drowning questions,
The apologetic constants.
Here I can hum
The one note of me
Suspended in the grace
Of continuity.
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