Home for me must have a cat.
And for that cat – there have been
many, each in turn, in their time,
the most important in the world –
for that cat, I say, my home must be
their home, their own, with every
comfort, all safety, each need met,
where they are always loved, and where
they know they are free to be loving.
Written for Friday Writings #96 at Poets and Storytellers United: What, for you, conjures up Home?
It goes staccato now –
when I bend to the past,
see the miles covered.
I’d like a softer flow,
lento or legato.
Prompted simultaneously by Friday Writings #95 at Poets and Storytellers United, where Rommy invites us to be inspired by the idea of losing track of time, and by Grace at dVerse introducing us to the Flamenca or Seguidilla Gitana form.
As it has become difficult to access the instructions for this form, I post them here:
Boomerang Metaphors (invented by Hannah Gosselin)
* Create three, “This poem is a ____,” statements.
* Support each statement in separate stanzas, (one can choose the length of the supporting stanzas and whether or not to rhyme or employ free verse).
* Restate the statement that’s being supported in the last line of these supporting stanzas, (as mini boomerang metaphor refrains).
* Then name the list of three, “This poem is a _____,” statements again as a boomerang metaphors closing refrain.
Note: One may choose to state the closing refrain slightly morphed but mostly the same. As it seems, words that go out into the world do tend to come back touched – slightly transformed.
* The title encapsulates the three listed elements, “This Poem is a ____, ____ and a _____”
