Michelle Bishop Writes

Day 17 is a two for Tuesday in the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge. So here are the writing prompts we’re working with today:

1. Write an explosion poem.
2. Write an implosion poem.

Without Warning

Implosion of the soul generally occurs without warning. – m.b.

It was so sudden
I did not anticipate
The extraordinary pain
From the gaping hole
In the center of my chest
Where my heart once sat,
I thought, safely nestled
Inside my rib cage
Cradled gently in soft tissue
And muscle until the day
I understood
That you never loved me and
Never would and
All those years
Of trying to be good
Didn’t soften your heart but instead
Bred distain
So you could easily rip
Mine to shreds over and over
From childhood ‘til now
Until finally
The light dawned
– not like soft candlelight
But like sticks of dynamite
Strategically placed
To cause my soul
To collapse onto itself

m.b. – November 2009