A mouse can’t eat an elephant,
not in one sitting at least.
That’s what we can boil it down to,
the basics of possibility
in that everything
becomes an eventuality
eventually.
When you learn
to scuff the corners off time,
it becomes something else.
I like to shake it out
as if it were a tablecloth
on the front steps.
Free the crumbs
into the wind
and see what grows
when the tides settle
enough
for things to find a place.
When I’m done
I use the same folds
to pack it away.
No harm in that.
Better than bending time
into shapes it won’t understand.
Hidden,
it can’t do much
but carry on as it was,
idling the hours away,
the minutes, the moments,
the breathes.
I wonder
if time can waste itself?
Perhaps the dark ages
were teenage years,
where getting out of bed
seemed pointless.
It was easier
to let things muddle by
without any real effort.
Asteroids were an eraser
but like any chalk board
a few ghosts get left behind.
They only bothered
to try clearing it all once.
Maybe they lost the ladder
used to reach the top
so these days
they only blitz
patches they can reach.
You would have thought
that in this sort of era
an upgrade would be called for,
a whiteboard at least,
less mess to clear up
at the bottom of the world.
And now for our daily prompt (optional as always). I’ve found this one rather useful in trying to ‘surprise’ myself into writing something I wouldn’t have come up with otherwise. Today, I’d like you to take one of the following statements of something impossible, and then write a poem in which the impossible thing happens:
The sun can’t rise in the west.
A circle can’t have corners.
Pigs can’t fly.
The clock can’t strike thirteen.
The stars cannot rearrange themselves in the sky.
A mouse can’t eat an elephant.
So clever and very well done! Really enjoyed it!
Thank you Bill, I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Wonderful! Playful, thoughtful….so full!
Thank you very much.
My pleasure!
what fun carol! that one grabbed me too! Have you thought about reworking it, making it a little tighter?
Maybe. I try to not spend too much time on the NaPoWriMo prompts. I had a screenwriting competition I need to focus on today as well so my time has been a bit strained.