http://lanternreview.com/blog/2009/11/20/weekly-prompt-we-mustnt-____-anymore/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:31:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://lanternreview.com/blog/2009/11/20/weekly-prompt-we-mustnt-____-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Iris Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:32:19 +0000 http://lanternreview.com/blog/?p=303#comment-28 Tom, thank you so much for sharing this with us! I love the poem's attention to nuance, how a little movement right or left could change the speaker's circumstances in an instant, and was really struck by those lovely end rhymes in line 9/10 ("car"/"ajar") and how they sweep us neatly from street level to the intimate domestic space. Tom, thank you so much for sharing this with us! I love the poem’s attention to nuance, how a little movement right or left could change the speaker’s circumstances in an instant, and was really struck by those lovely end rhymes in line 9/10 (“car”/”ajar”) and how they sweep us neatly from street level to the intimate domestic space.

]]> http://lanternreview.com/blog/2009/11/20/weekly-prompt-we-mustnt-____-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-23 tom Kelly Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:25:31 +0000 http://lanternreview.com/blog/?p=303#comment-23 here's a stab at the prompt!! We musn’t wonder anymore what might have been might have happened if we had just stepped to the right or paused and turned to the left checked yes, instead of no waited for the green seen the approaching car the bedroom door ajar let go of the one on the right taken hold of the one on the left awakened just a bit earlier or understood the meaning of love as gifting lifting our eyes from the ground to the sky we musn’t wonder anymore but live fully in this time EndFragment here’s a stab at the prompt!!
We musn’t wonder anymore
what might have been
might have happened if
we had just stepped to the right
or paused and turned to the left
checked yes, instead of no
waited for the green
seen the approaching car
the bedroom door ajar
let go of the one on the right
taken hold of the one on the left
awakened just a bit earlier
or understood the meaning of love
as gifting
lifting our eyes from the ground
to the sky
we musn’t wonder anymore
but live fully
in this time EndFragment

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