Today’s prompt for Writer’s Digest Poetic Asides poem-a-day challenge is to write a poem with an interaction of some sort. The interaction does NOT have to be between people, though it can, Robert Brewer emphasized. Although that made it easier in some ways, I couldn’t think of a thing to write until I hovered fingers over keyboard, and the words came.
“Surface Tension”
You guide me to
your plane of
tranquillity.
Flat, black,
reflecting the
sunlit sky,
you entice me
down.
I land on your
invisible top
and slip along
your suddenly
gooey surface.
By what trick have
you caught me
here? My wings are
no match;
my legs agitate,
against your
grip. I stall, sink
down.
“Surface tension,”
you ripple in reply,
the last thing I hear.
