A new Quadrille prompt this week (44 word poem not including the title) from Kim at dVerse Poets. The word to include this time around? “Engrave”.
Rings
They were inside
A set
Of rings
Initials
Engraved
Ribboned to a pillow
In a church held by ponytails with cherub cheeks and cautious feet
In front of families of smiles
Initials engraved in two rings of a soon brittle metal I don’t recall

Now you have to go read mine.😅
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A touching poem, Stephen, and I love the idea of the ‘ponytails with cherub cheeks and cautious feet’ and ‘families of smiles’. The ‘rings of a soon brittle metal’ are foreboding.
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Thank you Kim and foreboding indeed.
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My pleasure, Stephen.
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That last line kind of took the wind out of my sails. Excellently done.
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Thanks so much Violet and apologies. 🙂
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No apologies! We write to touch off emotion, and every time you accomplish that you did your job!
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A good beginning cannot last forever.
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Damn that huh?
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The soon brittle metal does not bode well for them!
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It did not, but a long time ago so …
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The imagery is beautiful, a setting of promise, but the “brittle metal” suggests its demise. So sad, Stephen.
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Thank you Dora, though like i said to Merril up top, a long time ago.
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