Blog, Pain/Sadness Derailed – A Quadrille by Christine Bolton • March 22, 2021 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 ☺️