Tense: Poem A Day

Published Categorised as Writings, Poetry, Personal
Tense

Past tells a story
Present lives a story
Future pretends a story we want to live but never will.

#PoemADay #BrainInjury #PTSD #grief

Tense was the prompt for today’s poem for Writer’s Digest April poetry challenge.

For today’s prompt, write a tense poem. It could be past tense, present tense, and/or future tense. Or it could be about a tense feeling. Or the tension in an object (like the strings of a guitar).” Robert Lee Brewer on WD

I wrote the above poem off the cuff in about 10 seconds. Grief hit me hard this past weekend, and poetry happens to brew in my mind during such times. The prompt pushed this poem to the surface and out.

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Screenshot of poem on Bluesky