This is a response to Poppy's January Edition Prompts, which can be found here:
I wanted this poem to stretch in one continuous line, but thats not an easily achieved formatting option even on paper. But you know. Imagine it that way.
Laboriously, we stitched together the pieces of you and me [your dreams like drifting seeds blown by the whims of the wind (the embryo within the nurturing endosperm, encased in the seed coat, shielding the hope within) my dreams bullseye punctures in the shield I hid beneath] a quilted whole to keep us warm in the perilous hours of the night.
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Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH6 days ago in Critique
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well...I'm sorry...I read this a while ago and didn't comment. this is sublime, Ms Moore. How you managed to craft so much into so little and I love the formatting too. Wonderful entry!
MMMMMM!!!! Nesting in quilted format. What an absolutely comfy idea. Smooth.
Ahhhh this is just amazing Hannah! I absolutely loved how you referenced the prompts without using the words. It’s obviously very different but it reminds me of your super clever entry into the Short and Sweet Challenge when you had double meanings for each word by adding letters. (That was the poem that got me into your writing and I still adore it.) You always find clever and extremely affective (or effective, I never know lol) ways of using prompts. Even aside from that though, this is gorgeously written. The one line idea was great and the whole poem just felt like warmth. Incredibly well done!!
Stunning Hannah. Love the continuous line idea 🤍
Sniffles. What a beauty.
Whoaaaaaa!!! This is a masterpiece! Soooo magnificent!! Hannah, this is soooo beautiful!
I read this before knowing what the prompt was... One moment while I read the prompt now... (3 min later...) 😮 That was awesome. I think you used all the words except the dolls. I may have a go at it! Thanks for the solid example.
Very clever! I love picturing the sentence stretching across an A3 page!
I loved this. The format works. I like the way you used the words without using them i.e. bullseye punctures, perilous hours of the night, encased in the seed coat etc
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