Thursday, November 15, 2007

Inside Out

She spends her time in fallout shelters in her mind, can't run far enough.

Putting pen to page -this life- making beauty out of nothing at all.

These poems are an attempt at writing American Sentences for a prompt at

14 comments:

  1. Sara, these are both great.

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  2. Sarah, this one is really well done. Very beautiful and communicates the concept of creation from nothing to something, and the first line is just too true.

    PS I have been traveling and got backlogged on my online communications over the last few days. I'll catch up.

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  3. I love the first line. The second one is true, with its lurch long bridge of hyphens but the state of the poem...is in the first line for me.

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  4. I like the fallout shelters in her mind.

    Thought in sharp focus.

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  5. Waht a beautiful way of talking about poetry!

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  6. Beauts. I really enjoy the wallop these things pack. And I doubt that without it they'd be American sentences at all.

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  7. Hey Writerwoman, I'm starting to see the unseen, it looks like you've got the 'write' idea here!

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  8. I love the first one. Great image!

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  9. good work - I especially like the "fallout shelters in her mind" - I think I have some of those. :)

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  10. You did well with both!

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  11. interesting prompt. i need to check it out.

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  12. "Putting pen to page -this life- making beauty out of nothing at all.", I loved this one, Sara. You wrote down the thoughts in my heart.

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  13. the second one had me noddig - 'so true, so true'. The first is just stunning

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  14. I thought I left a comment here, Sara, about the first one being so vivid an image, and made me shudder..brrr

    And the second one is just so true! And you do it superbly..:)


    janetleigh

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