I’m not like her,
the intricate pattern
you spent hours
inspecting,
flipping through screens
reflecting,
lining up side-by-side,
taking a swatch home
for a trial ride.
After you committed to
cursing and perfecting,
for better or for worse,
loving and neglecting;
the lesser of two evils
in selecting.
I”m more accommodating,
draping,
simple alternating colors,
elongating.
Floor to ceiling elegant,
but with a silly side,
a circus tent,
pitched just before
the main event.
Bending to include
a better view.
Parting gracefully
to showcase you.
Without ending or beginning,
a willing detainee;
I bend my bars to set you free.
NaPoWrimo 2021 Day Four. A new day, a new verse. I’m excited to share that experience with all of you. I will be gaining inspiration throughout from napowritmo.net daily prompts. Join me in verse.
Today’s challenge was perfect as art is a huge vein of inspiration for me. Poetry often takes us to the “liminal,” in other words – a place or sensation that exists at or on both sides of a boundary or threshold, neither one thing or the other, but something betwixt and between.
In honor of the always-becoming nature of poetry, I challenge you today to select a photograph from the perpetually disconcerting @SpaceLiminalBot, and write a poem inspired by one of these odd, in-transition spaces.
Yard Sale of Thoughts 
Unrelentingly liminal, K. I rarely have to worry about the cost / effort of remodeling / redecorating because My Beloved Sandra just keeps bringing home more samples, viewing more options, and reconsidering, reconsidering, reconsidering. That works for me!
Awesome work.
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Me either. There are more important tings to be doing. It must be lunchtime.
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There’s always time to wallpaper after lunch. 😉
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priorities
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I think you captured the essence of the image perfectly here!
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Thank you very much.
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It’s a wonderful poem. I love the rhythm and rhyme and the current of it – it pushes along very strongly. And, as Ingrid says, it’s a great word picture of the image.
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Thank you, kindly. I like a lot of the photos from that artist. May have to dip into that stream again. 🙂
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abigfatcanofworms has said it all. Ditto!
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terrific image; the poem adorns it well — love the circus tent reference and the bending bars 🙂
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Thank you, John. Couldn’t pass on this photograph and the surreal feelings of openness it brought me, just felt like the room was expanding.
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nicely put 🙂
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