Weekly Writing Prompts March 11-March 18
Daily Prompt #13 For A Nurse In this fragile frontier-place, your kindness Becomes a light that consoles the brokenhearted, Awakens within desperate storms That oasis of serenity that calls The…
March 30, 2016
I feel like I know this poem — did you write it a while back and just recently post it here? Funny, but I was actually thinking about Prometheus today (after doing some reading) and had this vague recollection of a poem you’d written about him. If this is brand new, then I’m either crazy or really tapped in! Thanks for sharing it either way…
Brava! starting with the question catches me. I also love the informal, conversational tone. makes the piece very approachable.
taking a well known myth and spinning it like this is ekphractic! the regenerative nature of the liver is something the greeks may have been aware of experientially. For the myth, it becomes a symbol of regeneration. in your poem, the voice is not taken but “borrowed”, used for and by others and then returned.
they are both heroic myths – and i love this about the piece.
Look at you, getting your poetry all on and everything… 🙂
keep it up. Do i see a poetry chapbook in the offing?