For today's prompt, write a never again poem. Maybe you'll never again fall in love or never again tell a lie. Or maybe, just maybe, you'll never again not write a sestina.(Like that? It's a double negative.) Today, find my poem in the comments below.
Never again
Who knows what never again?
Never again to awaken to the no-sound of snow?
Never again finish a novel, translated from Russian?
Never again look down from a monument
on the tourists pouring out from the bus?
Or to fly over an ocean or to get a letter
with a flower pressed
crumbled within?
Never again
Could be
closer
Never again to move the shoes
Never again to turn out the light
Never again to hold a cup warm in my hands
and say what will be today?
Never again to pull out the key
or put in the key or open a door.
It could be.
Until then this repetition
of key door letters light
shoes candles cup sheets
my body warm
and warming there
curled
breathing
blessed
ready
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