Never Again

The sun
has climbed much higher
in the blistering biosphere
until the
elastic sky is far too close.
Prostrate on caramel sand,
I burn.

Kim M. Russell, 1st August 2024

Image by Leio McLaren on Unsplash

I’m a little late for the What’s Going On? prompt this week, a bit like making a cameo appearance for Sumana’s challenge. I enjoyed reading about the history of the cameo, which is also a poetry form, new to me, and I’m excited to try it.

Sumana tells us that it is an unrhymed poem invented by English poet Alice Spokes, with seven lines and 2-5-8-3-8-7-2 syllables per line, for a total of 35 syllables, and it is brief, so we should write poems that are either character based or about anything that has a brief but impactful appearance. Our example is a poem about a cameo brooch, by Catie Rosemurgy.

I’ve been playing around with an old poem in different forms, and I thought it might fit the prompt. I’m not a sunbather, I prefer the shade, but I did try it once, and suffered from sunburn and sunstroke, in a very short time. I’m hoping that comes across in the poem.

23 thoughts on “Never Again”

  7. I agree with everyone who likes ‘elastic sky.’ Your poem worked very well as a cameo. And alas, I used to lie in the sun to try to tan as well, even used sun tan OIL. Can you imagine? How foolish we were in those ‘old days.’

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