Forever Distracted By Life
Writing Prompt Response – Original Poetry
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Prompt Posted: Tuesday 28 September 2021
Use the pictures and/or this common cliché as inspiration for a poem or story:
“And they lived happily ever after.”
(You don’t need to use the actual words of this cliché in your work, just try to capture the theme or emotion created by them.)
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Diamante – With You/Without
With you;
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safety, security,
laughing, loving, learning
I am happiest. When I think of you
mourning, moping, masking
painful, powerless
without.
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Sonnet – Together Again
Their time together was never in vain
and will never be lost or forgotten.
Their withered blooms are fallen and rotten
but their roots have grown stronger than their pain.
Their tears once fell from faces cleansed by rain;
weather hardened, their journey has got them
further, some lost on the way, but not them
they mourned their losses, but ignored their strain.
Knowing that life would never be the same
when fate fractured the pathway; they followed
together while they could, but without blame
when they went their separate ways both hollowed.
Living like ghosts; haunting the lives that they lost
until they cross the Styx at Charon’s cost.
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Triolet – Without Reason
I have lost my reason to love
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to that most final fate of life.
I gave my love, but not enough;
I have lost my reason, to love.
Going on, without, has been tough;
I am a husband with no wife.
I have lost my reason, to love,
to that most final fate of life.
Author’s Note:
These poems were written as a response to the Common Cliché writing prompt #5: “And they lived happily ever after.”
Is ‘happily ever after’ an ideal that one can actualise, or a reason to continue on? The journey may never end, but the prize was always the adventure.
“How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?’
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
‘It will do well, if it ever comes to that,’ said Frodo.
‘Ah!’ said Sam. ‘And where will they live? That’s what I often wonder.”
These poems explore the multiplicity and subjectivity of ‘happy ever after’ as an ideal:
“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
Jane Yolen, Briar Rose
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Cinquain – Afterlife
My God;
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in whom I trust,
though you taketh away
my love, I know I will see you
again.
Haiku – The Tree
I discarded my leaves,
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not because I don’t love them;
I must care for me.
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