Seeing Clearly

My husband drinks beer and/or vodka
Every night I hear as he pours
The liquid into a cup

He often wonders why
He’s sleepy before
I am ready

To close my
Sober
Eyes

From the 2021 Poetry Marathon

Prompts Hour Twelve

Text Prompt

For this year’s first formal prompt the challenge is to write a nonet. This poetic form requires that you write a 9-line poem. In the first line, there are 9 syllables, in the second 8 syllables, and so on down to the final one syllable (ninth) line. You can learn more and read an example here, but its origin is unknown.

4 thoughts on “Seeing Clearly”

So much can be found in those few words.
Powerful message.

Sigh. Thank you for being able to see what is not written between the lines.

Well done, Stef. You might have heard about the value of “showing” rather than “telling.” You have created a vivid display, magnified by not adding any non-descriptive verbiage. Again, well done.

Stef says:

June 25, 2022 11:52am EDT at 11:52 AM

Yes, my Word Weavers group has many folks that tell me that I tell more than show. Thanks for noticing I can take criticisms. 😉

The Poetry Marathon

Seeing Clearly

Seeing Clearly

From the 2021 Poetry Marathon

Prompts Hour Twelve

Text Prompt

4 thoughts on “Seeing Clearly”

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