prompt 155 A red-letter day
Welcome back. You’ve described the usual. Now describe a red-letter day. It could be a recollection or it could be a reference. Or it could be just about feeling special. In fact that is what you should actually aim for. What made the protagonist feel special? What is indelible? The day the protagonist discovered a passion for something maybe. It can be a public occasion. It can be completely internal. You may wish to take one element from the first poem and develop it. And just to jazz things up, and if it fits the story of your protagonist, drop the name of a celebrity. You know, it could add some razzmatazz or glamor and perhaps, glamor is what the protagonist needs. Substitute glamor as needed. A margarita?
So this is the second poem in the series.
You can link your poem to this post once it’s written. You have all week to write. Next Thursday, we’ll see you for a new prompt. Hint hint: It’ll have to feature the protagonist. The idea is that the protagonist will somehow tie all your poems together so there’s a kind of storyline going on. We’ll explore. We’ll make the ordinary extraordinary.
Amanda, Gina and Michelle
Frida has been down
Can’t sleep
Gory Cleveland story
Three women
Thoughts twisted
No woman can draw a breath
Be unaffected by the horror
In blood and bone
Bound
Torture
Theft of self
Ten years
Ten long years
They did what they had to
They saw their chance
They broke away
Freedom
This was a red letter day
Imprisionment
Was not their choice
Innocence was stolen
Let no one take it away
Freedom for Frida makes
A red letter day
note: No, this was not what I thought I would write about, but it is so awful, it must be spoken. When your Mother tells you not to get into a car with someone, anyone, listen.
annellannell 