PAD challenge day 6: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “After (blank),” replace the blank
with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and
then, write your poem.
Like landmarks on a glove that pulses with worlds too complex
to spell
After the cold, hard truth smacks us in faces once brave
with fool’s scorn
After the heart has weathered being stretched, crushed,
broken, hunger-torn
We learn to live, to love and give instead of scheming
how to get
The aftertaste of wonder lingers; hope soft-mingled with
regret
After we reach much higher than the ways that naked eye
can see
After Forgiveness, God’s grace hones from bones of pride,
humility
© Janet Martin
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