INDIE INK WRITING CHALLENGE!
This week, I decided to do the indie ink challenge again because I enjoyed last week’s challenge so much! I was challenged by Cope of Voluntary Tourettes to write on the prompt: “Falling from a mountain of bodies” and I challenged him to write on the topic of “violin music in the dark.”
Pantoum of the Holocaust
Falling from a mountain of broken bodies,
remembering days, once so bright.
Hear the piano sing, joyous and bawdy!
A ring shines dull in evening light.
a ring shines dull in evening light.
Testament to cruelty, and acts ungodly.
Long past days, of cool champagne and hot toddies,
blood-stained ring, still glimmers in dark night.
Testament to cruelty, and acts ungodly
amid the death, during fuhrer’s reich
blood-stained ring, still glimmers in dark night–
Hear the piano sing, joyous and bawdy?
Amid the death, during fuhrer’s reich…
falling from a mountain of broken bodies.
By the way, if you are interested in how to write pantoums, you can find it here in a how to post.
eerie and creepy and sad. That image especially cements the feelings of dispair
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Is it weird that the 1st thing I thought about when I read the prompt was the holocaust? I’m not sure, lol.
Wow. This is very song-like. I’m tempted to ask if you’re a musician.
Well it sounds like a song mostly because of the rules of the form, which is supposed to make it easier to remember and retell. I like to sing but I’m not a musician.
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