With a shovel in your hand, How will you find the strength Or a will to part with me?
Will you still mourn me, If I ask you to embrace my end? Love will tear me apart… Love will break my heart…
Digg deep through dirt and grass, I‘ll sleep to keep my mind at ease. Gone in a heartbeat… Gone, done, my last retreat…
My love, do you hear the drums calling? You should kiss me before it’s too late.
Gravedigger is what people see, Raw hands and muddy boots. Are they blind? Can’t they see Violets you placed in my hands, Everlasting love in your eyes.
“Fold a sheet of paper in half Think of a career or occupation choice On the one side of the page list 10 nouns on the other half 10 verbs that correspond to that position Now connect each of the nouns with a verb Using any of those combinations, write a 3 (or more) stanza poem with 3 (or more/or less) lines per stanza.”
Another interesting exercise that led me to a place I probably wouldn’t venture to.
We ought to do Acrostics more often for MTB at dVerse; they really can be clever & fun; as is yours. The last stanza is killer, shifting the emotional timbre of the piece. Nice job.
An amazing acrostic. I always admire it when someone can do it effectively and then to arrive at the last two lines…deeply emotional, arriving at love and violets…
For the life of me, I can’t produce a piece of writing that is not deeply emotional. The second I sit down to write something, my darkness fights its way out. Not a bad thing, but it would be a nice change to write something funny and fluffy.
I agree. I wanted to do Claudia’s interesting prompt but all I kept getting was dark and dreadful. Maybe this is a way for us to get that darkness out of us and into the light – the writing. And when I write something I think is light, folks comment “poignant” or “wistful”. LOL, maybe us poetic folks are just like that.
Incredible acrostic!! last stanza is ACE. I also love all the questionings throughout as well…
when they part with you, will they mourn or sigh of relief? Great write
Much appreciated, Grace. It is a freedom of a reader to take it in any way she/he feels and it is very rewarding when readers see many layers in one’s writing. Thank you.
I published a photo of my hometown cemetery this week, so it seems I just went down that road a little bit further. When I read this latest prompt, to think of a career, I wanted to chose something that is usually overlooked. But I had to twist it, to intertwine it with my own touch of darkness and soul searching. Thank you for introducing me to dVerse, I enjoy it so much!
Wow! I read this after seeing the Shakespeare Investigation of Othello. This was a perfect epilogue. Usually acronyms are not very successful poem, but this one is rich in emphasizing what the poem does very well. I’m impressed!
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How clever that you also managed to write an acrostic poem! I particularly like the unexpected closing stanza.
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Thank you, Gabriella. I enjoyed writing this so much, an acrostic form comes naturally and easy to me.
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We ought to do Acrostics more often for MTB at dVerse; they really can be clever & fun; as is yours. The last stanza is killer, shifting the emotional timbre of the piece. Nice job.
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Thank you, Glenn. I knew where I’ll end even before I started, but when I read it now, the beginning sounds like MC is talking about her killer.
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A very emotional write…and you managed to find meaning so effectively by using the acrostic form.
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Glad you liked it, Mary. I am very happy to contribute to your little group, a very friendly bunch.
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An amazing acrostic. I always admire it when someone can do it effectively and then to arrive at the last two lines…deeply emotional, arriving at love and violets…
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For the life of me, I can’t produce a piece of writing that is not deeply emotional. The second I sit down to write something, my darkness fights its way out. Not a bad thing, but it would be a nice change to write something funny and fluffy.
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I agree. I wanted to do Claudia’s interesting prompt but all I kept getting was dark and dreadful. Maybe this is a way for us to get that darkness out of us and into the light – the writing. And when I write something I think is light, folks comment “poignant” or “wistful”. LOL, maybe us poetic folks are just like that.
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Perfectley stated, couldn’t agree more.
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Incredible acrostic!! last stanza is ACE. I also love all the questionings throughout as well…
when they part with you, will they mourn or sigh of relief? Great write
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Thank you, Anthony. I must admit I am a little overwhelmed by kind words. It means a lot.
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I admire the acrostic poem ~ I look at the gravedigger here as a metaphor ~
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Much appreciated, Grace. It is a freedom of a reader to take it in any way she/he feels and it is very rewarding when readers see many layers in one’s writing. Thank you.
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Cool how you managed to turn this prompt into an acrostic.
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I am still to test the double acrostic with the rhyme. That is one challenge I have my eyes set on. Tnx, Bryan!
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it is amazing sometimes how different people can see different things in others – always depending on our own “glasses” and experience
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So true and the older I get, the kinder my views become. Thank you, Claudia. This was an excellent challenge.
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Gravedigger.. Such an interesting profession to choose, the view in the last line is really great
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A perception can be so different and all the sudden the poem get all different.
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I published a photo of my hometown cemetery this week, so it seems I just went down that road a little bit further. When I read this latest prompt, to think of a career, I wanted to chose something that is usually overlooked. But I had to twist it, to intertwine it with my own touch of darkness and soul searching. Thank you for introducing me to dVerse, I enjoy it so much!
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We all wonder about how it might happen, who will be around…be it fleetingly…poignant poem.
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Thank you, Kathy.
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“Who will digg my grave?” Dang, that is a question, isn’t it? Dug your acrostic (ha, pun intended). Well done!
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Thank you for kind words, glad you liked it.
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Wow! I read this after seeing the Shakespeare Investigation of Othello. This was a perfect epilogue. Usually acronyms are not very successful poem, but this one is rich in emphasizing what the poem does very well. I’m impressed!
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Oh, thank you. An epilogue to Shakespeare, can’t get better than that. 🙂
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