Saturday 30 April 2022

Day 30 - Quote

The last day is upon us.

It is Day 30 and thank you to everyone who has read the pieces I've made this month. The main site quote for today was to write a Cento but, as someone, who is not a form fan I'm going to take the spirit of it for something else.

Today I want you to find a quote- be it from a song, a poem, a book, a film - and use that as an epitaph for the piece you write. For mine, I'm choosing a line from the Billy Joel song "Summer, Highland Falls"

Song of Isolation
"And I believe there is a time for meditation
in cathedrals of our own."

And here we begin our rituals;
of dressing;
of taking tea.

slow sleepwalk to hymn 
of computer fans - 
birdsong on high march wind.

Peace in mundanity; 
thin sheen of the familiar 
to mask a clawing despair.

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