Attack of An Apple
‘Twas
two days
left ’til Christmas
when he dropped
me at
the
door,
leaving me
lost and lonesome,
a stranger in
an even
stranger
land.
People packed
like standing sardines,
trapped tightly in
a tin.
Panic
overcame
me, incapacitating.
Sweating, shaking, sobbing,
anxiety attacking inside
Apple Store.
As
we
left, he
asked would I
ever return on
my own?
“NEVERMORE!”
****A hay(na)ku is a three line poem where the first line consists of one word, the second line has two, and the third line is composed of three words. A reverse hay(na)ku is three lines composed in the opposite fashion, of three words, then two, and one word for the final line. In the 2019 Poetry Marathon, I created the “Mirror hay(na)ku” by combining a hay(na)ku with a reverse hay(na)ku. In 2020, I took things a step further by compiling five mirror hay(na)ku stanzas and calling it a Hall of Mirrors Hay(na)ku.****
I like your poem. I am a big Poe fan so the last word in your poem is great. The reference to a stranger in an even stranger land could come right out of Heinlein Sci Fi novel