WFSC Creative Writing Facilitators Mike Deregowski and Kelsey Hoople challenge you to participate in national poetry month. 1 poem per day for 30 days with no working ahead. 😉
Overall theme 'The Great Escape'.
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Day 19 | April 19th | Chasing Echoes
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Chasing Echoes
Like a dog chasing its tail
Or a cat, a beam of light
Like the grieving chasing ghosts
Or the vengeful seeing retribution
Like the lost chasing dreams
Or the tormented injecting escape
Like an echo, you cannot catch an idea
That moves in a future disguised as the past
Life moves in real time with you leading the way
Lana O’Neill
April 20, 2020
Chasing Echoes
Silky smooth hair
Face of an angel
Freshman year I fell
Never told her, didn’t dare
She hung with the popular crowd
I couldn’t get near
Would look through me, I feared
Couldn’t say the words aloud
Loved her more than anyone
But, to her, I didn’t exist
Thought I might persist
Figured my life would be finished, done
She may as well be a pharaoh
Couldn’t get close enough to touch
The feeling is just too much
May as well be chasing echoes
©April 20, 2020
J.E. McKnight
Chasing Echoes
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Remember the younger days of chase,
Those games of Grounders, Red Rover; games
That gave our young hearts a reason to race,
A reason to forget those school fames.
What happened to those games, where did
The fun go? And will there ever be a reason
To bring it back, to uncover what was hid?
Now, I sit and watch the season;
They go by, autumn-to-spring
And summer-fly-into-winter, how dull.
You could say I have lost my wing
If ever I did fly, this bull,
In a china shop we call life, you must think
I am some beast-of-burden, just by the way I sway, so-and-so.
I must tell you, whoever you are, fox or mink,
That…
19. Chasing Echoes
Elongated, dark
Shortened by light
Faded it goes
Chasing shadows
Elusive, fake
Long-lived, real
Always it seems
Chasing dreams
Everywhere, loud
Focused yet soft
Repeating it shows
Chasing echoes
Life carries on
Senses don’t stop
With it brings hope
Chasing shadows, chasing dreams, chasing echoes.
(c) Linda J. Pedley 04-19-2020