#prompt: write a love poem that names at least 1 flower + contains a parenthetical statement + has lines break in unusual places.

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I knew it when your house bloomed. When the front step shifted from a held breath to a threshold.

The stasis had settled in, years-deep, sprawling through each room until the air went brittle, until (oops) it gnawed upon the bones.

And yet from day to day I watched you push it back. The rooms began to breathe again.

In the low light, you went shadow-kissed, the hollows of you retreating— but when I squinted to see, you rolled up your sleeves to replace the bulbs. The lightning in my chest could’ve lit the room itself.

I could cry for all your quiet concessions: a softer chair, a proper bed, the kitchen cracking an eye when I stirred a coffee at the counter.

On the last visit (before they stopped being visits, before the admitted defeat and the mutual resignation to the rest of our lives together) I slipped you a handful of buttercups that had begun to cautiously regain footing in the yard.

What’s this? you said, and you hadn’t quite resurrected the house enough for vases, so I tucked one into your lapel as you pushed another behind my ear.

A housewarming present, and I kissed your teeth as the home you’d built with me in mind heaved a contented sigh. Someone finally lives here.

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Napowrimo Day 25

Official Prompt:

Begin by reading e e cummings’ poem [somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond]. This is a pretty classic love poem, so well-known that it has spawned at least one silly meme. Today’s prompt challenges you to also write a love poem, one that names at least one flower, contains one parenthetical statement, and in which at least some lines break in unusual places. 

My Prompt: 

Imagine, if you will, that everyone has forgotten you and how you look. Write how you would describe yourself to them. One way in which to do this might be to write an inventory, similar to Twelfth Night where Olivia mocks love poetry by listing her features plainly (Act 1, Scene 5).

Lucky Dip:

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