2019 Poetry Challenge – Week Nineteen

Week 19 words from @meghalnaik: ocean, turtles, sand, choking, plastics.

 

my thoughts are an ocean of grief

my heart a pillar of salt

my breath soured

with the taint of decay

 

turtles lay eggs in the sand

an act of faith

abandoning progeny to fate

and a polluted ocean

 

man's red hand

bleeds into blue

leaving a planet

choking on plastics

 

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Here are the words and my poem for the nineteenth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge.

There was an obvious direction given with the words for this week's poem. I tried to play around with them to make things a little more interesting but ended up where I originally expected.  It was interesting to have such strong and definite words.

If you want to join the 2019 Poetry Challenge, head on over to my Instagram account (@indraniperera) where I post the words for the week on Mondays (mostly) in my story. Write a poem and post it. Be sure to tag me and use the hashtags #2019poetrychallenge and #livepoetsclub. 

If you don't want to write a poem, you can still be part of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Send me five random words and I'll use them in a poem. Either DM me on Instagram with the words or send me an email (indrani at indraniperera dot com).

Happy writing!