Have I ever mentioned how much I love Pinterest? It has a wealth of helpful and amazing content on it, especially writerly related things. I have a whole board for writing, and I’ve collected a large amount of writing prompts on it. I love taking a prompt and then writing a poem based off of it, and so this week’s featured poem is one of those poems! Here is the prompt I chose:
And after some tweaking and writing, here is what I came up with:
He had a smile made for war
And the words that started it
Cocky and confident
Ready to face whatever
Life sent
Danger
Death
He was ready
Inflammatory
His words landed like hot sparks
On gunpowder
Igniting and lighting
Yet another dispute
What was going on inside his mind?
No one knew
He was like a safe
Locked tightly behind that smile
That smile that shifted
like shadows
Secretive
Taunting
Guarded
One thing was for sure
The words
Dammed up behind that
Impenetrable smile
Were ready
To start a war
And when the dam broke
A fire was ignited
As words poured out
Like lighted fire brands
Tearing down defences
Like soldiers swarming
Over the enemy castle’s walls
Impassioned speech after speech
He built arguments
And they raged higher and higher
Like wildfire
Unquenched and unstoppable
The words towered higher and higher
Unable to be scaled
Like a funeral pyre
They burned every last bridge
There was no going back
The fire smouldered and smoked
And rushed and roared
His words kept coming
Like a blazing torrent
More and more and more
His smile flashed
Dangerous
Smashing all defences
Relentless
Until at last
The war began
Wow! That’s deep! I had to look up what on earth a funeral pyre is, haha… Good job! ❤
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Thanks, Anne! Always love your encouragement… 😉 ❤
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He definitely sounds like an intriguing person! Good poem!
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Thank you, Grace! 🙂
~ Hannah
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