The
year is young, beginnings abound, T.H.A. is in dire need of renewal, Atlanta is foggy, and
Wikipedia turns fourteen today. So, I
come up with…
Wikems.
Wikipedia poems.
Here’s
the idea:
- Each Thursday – starting today, January 15th, 2015 – I will post a link to a Wikipedia article, a quote from it and my wikem inspired by that quote.
- I invite you to check out the article, searching for a quote that clicks with you. (You are free to use the quote I provide if it happens to be the one.)
- Once you've found your quote, use it as an epigraph, write your wikem, and post a link to it in the comments below. (You are welcome to post your wikem directly in the comments if you prefer.)
Let's play:
Here's your Wikipedia article for today:
Here's my wikem:
SWINGING
"Fog is a collection of liquid water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface."
She
swings, her long body
elongating
even more
as,
coming towards him,
she
leans back, laughing,
eyes
closed, neck curved,
blood
rushing to her head,
her
bare feet kicking the sky.
She
climbs to the peak
and,
reaching it, she stops,
breathless,
translucent
like
a sunray, or wind,
or
a droplet of water,
suspended
in the air
near
the Earth’s surface.
The
swings exhale,
and,
lassoed by gravity,
she
falls, surrendering,
letting
go of the ropes,
leaning
in, eyes fixed on him,
as
she moves further away,
into
the morning fog.
Thank you for reading my wikem. I look forward to reading yours.
Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")
