Derailed – A Quadrille

Derailed

Fraught with anxiety
from your polarizing display
of how to sabotage this special day
My nerve endings are stretched
and entwined into an intricate
pattern of macrame-knotted pain
I am frozen in place and time
Numbingly shocked by the spectacle
I have just witnessed
 
 
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Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets
and has prompted us with the word "knot" to be used any
which way we choose

A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title


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Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

22 thoughts on “Derailed – A Quadrille

  1. A sterling metaphor, Christine:
    ‘My nerve endings are stretched
    and entwined into an intricate
    pattern of macrame-knotted pain’.

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  2. I can think of so many scenarios that could have inspired these words.
    I really liked this…” entwined into an intricate pattern of macrame-knotted pain”

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