Read Write Poem
Prompt – Headlines (shown in italics)
Laptops given to Gaza’s children
While Nigerian denies child bride claim
Yemaya’s babies deserve better
She calls her own to her
They stumble home weary and worn
Indian radioactive death probed
Bank boss warned of tough times
The wizard is checking the cost
Ancient fears prevail like desert winds
Who could have predicted that
Murder charge in PlayStation row
Space rock has frosted surface
Oracle no longer heeded
Lost people wander single file
No compass or north star to guide
Yemaya agrees. Called you to her nest, has she? That The wizard is checking the cost is haunting and the last three lines nail it all down beautifully.
Such a strange day for headlines. They just dripped right onto the page. Same day a headline drew me to an article on FGM, a former model who has written a book and underwent the torture as a child. She escaped through desert to avoid a marriage she had been sold into. Couldn’t even go there. Horrific. I do better when I don’t read the news.