May your life have poetry and your poetry, life…
Three Line Thursday remains a lovely addition to the blog here at Ink In Thirds. I would like to encourage you to spread the word and enter weekly. I will be including some of the poems from the weekly contributions in upcoming issues of Ink In Thirds Magazine, so if you’d like a chance to be published: participate weekly. Also, if you have a Twitter handle include it below your submission.
Happy writing!
If you don’t know what #TLT is all about here are the cliff notes:
- Write something that will move us! Inspired by the photo above.
- DO NOT include the prompt word.
- Brevity is key.
- What can you say, convey, express in only three lines? Can you paint a visual picture with only words? Tell an entire story that begs to be read? Use your imagination.
- No titles. Let’s keep it about the words.
- 10 words max per line. 3 lines.
- Post your poem in the comments and comment on others. Have fun!
This week’s prompt: Alone
All photography used for TLT purposes is licensed under Creative Commons Zero images.
Love and Ink,
Grace Black
Yearn for touch
Beg for sanity
This is too much.
~ADayDreamWriter
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There, alone in our moonsnatch valley
it’s picture-perfect, be it on canvas,
where rain falls, liquid as cruel sighs.
@miskmask
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In between leaving and staying
nothing matters,
everything scented by your smell.
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love this one Rachel :)
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Very nice.
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crumbled linen clouds
an unslept night sky
dawn breaks with a sigh
@firdausp
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Been there more than once.
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That’s sad :(
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My remedy, day sleep. Though it isn’t possible for everyone.
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Thanks.
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Sat in the gap between the bed and the wall,
My mind wanders off and away it crawls.
Without you here, I no longer have it all.
@jamesatkinson81
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She has no time to spend in sleep
For there are dreams
Waiting to be caught
@candacekubinec
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beautiful!
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I’ve got to go back sleeping less too. Would be healthier for my creativity.
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I was just the opposite today. After I got everyone out of the house, I went back to bed.
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😄
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Crouched down at bedside
hoping to be by herself
and not find monsters
@HoskingPoet
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On your knees at the side of the bed, again
hiding from the horrors you’ve seen.
Close your eyes and summon pure perfect dreams.
@feclarkart
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It always was like this.
But then it became a daily habit,
Something that prevented all the fight.
@ATinchini
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We get so much history in these three little lines.
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For sure. Still an open wound. It will take time.
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she found sleep easier this way
than in the bed they used to share
before his body broke before his final breath
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Oh, this just shouts ‘alone’
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Three friends and a cousin all lost their husbands unexpectedly (and all far too young) in 2017. I couldn’t help thinking of them when I saw this photo.
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so sad – those feelings came through in your words
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Far too alone…
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Twenty-two, twenty-one, twenty…I wonder where you’re hiding.
Ten, nine, eight…somewhere quiet and dark and intimate.
Three, two, one…coming to get you.
@ewanandsmith
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Sexy!
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I pictured some scary clown here. You made me shiver.
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She dreamed of freshly fallen snow,
An empty page, a single bed,
A chance to write a different story.
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Wow this says a lot.
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there is much hope in this
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Wish I had that chance.
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This is fabulous, Sarah.
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They found the body, sheltered in no warm caress,
On the fluffy rug, like some half-eaten satsuma,
Contrasting colours round a deep and heavy wound.
@steveweave71
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Dark. That half eaten satsuma – interrupted, discarded…
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