Thursday, 7 April 2022

Day 7 - Idioms

We made it through the first week! And today's prompt is coming from the main site where we are arguing against, or perhaps picking apart, proverbs and idioms. There's a lot of good ones ripe for dissecting but there's one I heard a lot over the last couple years that's going to be on trial here and I'm going to use a form that my University professor, Carrie Etter uses in one of her collections - the Catechism:

Its A Blessing In Disguise.
When a patient cries out, do we feed them poison?

Its a blessing in disguise.
The echo of his words - another sleepless night.

Its a blessing in disguise.
This room of music and laughter, now thick with silence.

Its a blessing in disguise.
"You can get new beds pretty cheap on Gumtree"

Its a blessing in disguise.
Knuckles chafed raw. Red paint on the canvas of the bedroom wall.

Its a blessing in disguise.
A sadness is drowning on dry land.

Its a blessing in disguise.
Gifts don't act the part named "the fist that beat you."

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