WOTW #2 - Memories

The WOTW prompt is: Frayed Ribbons.

To learn more about Writing on the Weekends go here.

Here is a poem that has been swirling around my head for a few days. When I read what the prompt was it just seemed to fit in with the fragments that were already floating around in me.

Enjoy!

Memories crash around me
like stormy ocean waves
knocking me over
Unable to escape the battering
I succumb

As the pictures
of things past
flash across my mind

The willow tree
where we sat talking and laughing
unaware of things to come

Starless nights
dancing
under the moon
just you and me

The many gifts
you so tenderly gave

The one I cherish the most
is the gift you gave
the day you went away

That single white ribbon
wrapped in flowered paper

Now wrapped
around your letters
written so long ago

A symbol of our past
those now frayed ribbons

Almost whole yet not
they symbolize
our memories
and what could have been
before the day
our lives fell apart leaving

only....

memories.

Photo Credit

Copyright Wild Rose.

I would love to hear your thoughts about my poem.

Writing on the Weekends

I decided to do this Writing on the Weekends activity. Jessica, from Literary Pursuits, came up with this.

This weeks writing prompt is the word Lost.

It seems like a lot of fun. Here is goes.

Lost.

I strain against all the odds
trying to form
a map in my mind

Did I pass this fallen
mossy log
or take a right through
the shimmering creek?

I disagree with what I think
forming an argument in my mind
yes...no...yes...hmm...
it goes on and on

Footprints lead away
and so I follow
thinking that this is my trail

I wander and soon I am back
to no place at all

a weeping figure
shrouded by the leaves of a willow
raising my faint head
I whisper
"Where am I?"

I know it can't be,
no, I won't admit it.
Like a cat hunting it's prey
the unwelcomed thought seeps in...

I'm lost.


Hope you enjoy!