By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 1 am 27/06/2020 Australian EST
Prompt 3: The Bop is one of my favourite poetry forms. There are three stanzas. Each stanza is followed by a refrain (so the same statement is repeated three times). The first stanza is 6 lines long and presents a problem. The second stanza is eight lines long and can explore or expand the problem. The third stanza is 6 lines long and can either present a solution or document a failed attempt to resolve the issue.
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{Sorrow is my saviour}
Sorrow is my saviour
Unlike your cold behaviour
At least I can feel my pain
But you are once removed
Emotionally unavailable
and already out the door
That’s what I get for ignoring red flags….!
No more will I fill your void
That great gaping hollow
Which screams to be filled
With bits of the other
Bitten off in chunks
And devoured with relish
I became your receptacle
Where you dumped your baggage
That’s what I get for ignoring red flags….!
Well, I have emptied the bin
Your rubbish has gone to the dump
I’ve gone and washed my hands of you
Sanitised and disinfected
There’s no more harm you can do
You’re out of my life, you’ve been rejected.
That’s what I get for ignoring red flags….!