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Feb 24
poem challenge: Abecedarian Poetry
Hazel.C.

Beasts of Blood

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Very rough draft of a Abecedarian poem created during yesterday's wonderful poetry workshop. Thank you Alexandra for the inspiring experience! It was cool to try writing in Abecedarian form; it really helpful to get ideas out. Here's my brain dump piece for now...I'll probably come back and edit it later. 

All it takes is one fly in the web
beckoning the stabbing spider who
carries a cacophony of
deadly jaws and
electric yellow warnings of
fiery venom that liquifies me in a single
gaping bite.

Her window - wide eyes reflected mine,
intricately cracked and mended in a pattern
just clean enough to hold.

Kin are the stitches to an embroidered 
love: stiches fray as
moths gnaw at any bright perfection. 

Never take pearly bindings as an end
on which to balance your happiness;
perhaps dove wings shall spread,
quitely pumping the blood that
reddens in an instant
soaking the web of doily - lace.

Tangled in the glimmering silks of
unfulfilled whispers between wings,
venom beats with the reverberations of a failing heart. 
 
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Posted: 02.24.19
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  1. angelaweasley
    Feb 26, 2019

    It was so great to have you in the workshop. Your poem-in-progress is really spectacular!

    -aw

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  1. Hazel.C.
    Feb 28, 2019

    I'm happy I was able to be there. Thank you for introducing me to Abecedarian form, I'm excited to try using it again soon.

    ~Hazel

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