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A free verse

A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

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by CD Richards


It's not a graven image,
a false idol,
a monument to evil,
representing unholy alliance
between clay and
diabolical sculptor.

It's not a salty pillar,
an ancient reminder
of the uselessness of doubt
and the folly of regret.

It's not a holy apparition,
a stone Madonna,
bleeding in despair
at the wickedness
of apostacy.

It's just a petrifact.
A likeness.
An observation.

Maybe,
more often than we think,
a statue
is a statue.

Pass up the Kool-Aid,
take the photo.


 




Today's word: petrifact (n.) a stone artefact or statue.

I rarely attempt free verse. There's probably a good reason for that; still we must occasionally challenge ourselves.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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