Miz Q 9: Green & White

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Week Two PROMPT NINE:COLOR, NOW

Look around you. Write down the first color you notice, and the second. That is the title of your poem. Write about yourself as a child, and use those two colors as a point of reference.

Green & White

Didn’t know

back then

that one

could be

so naive....

as to think

trust was given,

always and all ways.

That’s what pure innocence is;

believing in those who are your elders.

Or first loves. Not the playmates that elude you.

Or the siblings that excluded you or even the cousins that were rude to you

But the parents; the ones who trusted their own parents and then got sick.

And died.The remaining one remarried to the wicked stepmother

or the younger chippy after divorces

forces moves to more unfamiliar

places that repeatedly take

and takeaway confidence

until thinking blinks

brightly on

and now

that one

you are

is stable.

©JP/davh

The green around the gills and the white of innocence and purity