Sadness

 

Sadness

Write a poem that explores sadness not necessarily as a single feeling, but as something you might experience or live with,.

It can be about sadnesss in general or about a specific thing that causes sadness.  

A few ideas:

1. Where are you when you experience sadness?  Is it a room, a season, a memory, a body?

What does sadness sound like there—silence, repetition, something distant?
Let the poem express the small details.

2. Consider what is unsaid. about sadness.  Is sadness sharp or dull or pounding?

You might write about:

• a quiet moment after something has ended
• a conversation that never happened
• something once joyful that no longer is

Try to write so the reader will feel the sadness.  Allow the poem not to have an easy resolution. Let it end in a way that feels true rather than resolved. In your poem, you don'thave to make the sadness go away.  Feel free to let the sadness just hang there.  Sometimes sadness is that way.  

I could look for poems on sadness as examples, but I decided to let you discover your own if you wish to do a google search.  I don't know about you, but often example poems  do not help me write.  Think SADNESS, and go from there.

After you write your poem, link it using Mr. Linky below.  Then please visit the poems of others who post. The prompt will close Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.  

I look forward to reading what you come up with.