Artiste Incognito

PAD Challenge day 18: Somehow we’re already on our third Two-for-Tuesday of the month; 

time is flying.

Here are the two prompts for today:

• Write a life poem. The poem could be about the miracle of life, the complexity of life, the game of Life, or anything else that means life for you. Or…
• Write a death poem. For most organisms, life leads to death. So this should be as full of possibility as the life poem.

We pretend not to mind

The way you turn a page

Like season-flickers on the wind

Of youth to middle-age

The mementos you make

Then take, ache in love’s sigh

The oceans you leave in your wake

Shimmer in days gone by

Where quivers on the air

Rush to finality

The resonance of here-to-there

A string of memory

How soundless are your feet

Your touch, a subtle knife

That sculpts from hours bittersweet

The echo of a life

© Janet Martin

I attended my friend's mother's funeral yesterday...

Nothing like a funeral to remind one of

life's brevity and death's finality