Hello, beautiful readers! It's been another busy week for me filled with hanging out with family and friends. On Saturday, one of my poets performed in Piano Slam, which is a spoken word competition that also includes music and dance. My poet made the top 13 out of about 200 entries. She performed her poem perfectly, and I'm so proud of her.
Though I missed out on some great prompts last week, I'm starting off this week combining two. The first is dVerse's Quadrille #246: Let's get digging prompt. Punam invites us to write a quadrille (a poem with exactly 44 words) using the word dig. It can be a version of the word or a word with 'dig' inside it. I've chosen to use dug and dignity.
The second prompt is Melissa's Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #369 which provided the image below. I remember seeing displays of blue, iridescent butterflies in cases back in the '80s, and I always felt so bad for those butterflies.
life ended too soon
butterflies in glass coffins
no grave dug to lay them to rest
preserved for their elegance
trophies for selfish collectors
beautifully displayed in row
but no dignity given
if only we could cherish life
as much as we value art
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