Hello, beautiful readers! Happy May! Today I'm combining two prompts. The first is from #TankaTuesday. Melissa invited us to choose one of Romare Bearden's art pieces and let us inspire our poem. I've chosen Calm Sea (1987). My poem came out a bit depressing, but it's what came to my mind. It's purely a fictional piece.
The other prompt is dVerse's Haibun Monday 4-27-26: Silence. Frank invites us to write a haibun that alludes to silence in our poem. I chose to go with the silence that comes from insecurity and isolation.
Not Like the Others
They stand around her in their bikinis and beautiful bodies, laughing and flirting with perfectly sculpted men while she sits on her beach chair under her umbrella, wishing she had sat somewhere else. She hides behind her floppy hat and dark shades. One of the hotties glance her way before quickly diverting his eyes. A tear forms behind her shades. She was once like them - before age and loss stole her vibrancy. She closes her eyes and blocks it all out - the laughter, the conversations, and the judgement. She tunes it all out until she feels that familiar feeling of being alone, even on a crowded beach.
broken shells on shore
unnoticed and unwanted
crumble into dust
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