Blog, Pain/Sadness Derailed – A Quadrille by Christine Bolton • March 22, 2021 • 22 Comments 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 Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved 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 Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Share this:EmailPrintLike this:Like Loading...
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”
Thank you Mish. ☺️
We have to witness so much… and alas it leaves scars
Yes sometimes it’s hard to forget those moments 😔
Stark and potent – really lays out the power of the felt response.
Thank you Paul ☺️
I certain felt that tension! Wonderful!
Thanks Susan! ☺️
Thank you Susan ☺️💕
A sterling metaphor, Christine:
‘My nerve endings are stretched
and entwined into an intricate
pattern of macrame-knotted pain’.
Thanks Kim. I really appreciate it ☺️
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Thanks David. I’m happy you liked my words!
One forgets to ask – What is it that you saw, entangled in the beauty of words.
It was shocking behavior Reena 😦
That is evident. Strength and power to you!
Thanks Reena ☺️💕
Very well expressed Christine
Thank you Sadje ☺️
Always a pleasure
Colateral damage described in painful detail!
Thanks Lynn ☺️