Suddendeath poetry Challenge: Endings
By Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
Centralia, Missouri
December 31, 2016 8:04am CST
Welcome to this weekend’s Suddendeath poetry challenge, Endings! Anyways, rules are as follows, write a poem in any style using the five words that I give you. Write it in one sitting or in under an hour (only to quash your inner editor, rules are loose there). Add it here, OR link in a comment so we can enjoy each other’s' poems. The words can be in any plurality or tense. Today’s words are: end, begin, old, new, change
My entry is always, below:
End is on the wind, can you smell it?
Calling its sadness to all who can hear.
Regrets and loss in peoples minds tonight,
soon this year will all but disappear.
But change is on the wind, can you hear it?
Beginnings are on the wind too though.
Out with the old, in with the new,
time of course never stops it's flow.
The wind is full tonight, can you sense it?
Rolling towards future while carrying along past,
It's all out there for those who care to look,
those who sit and watch while it passed.
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5 responses
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
31 Dec 16
Very nicely done!
Change
Some endings are met with relief.
The New Year looms, is that a smile
or a sneer on its face? Beginnings
can look promising, yet disappear
in an orange haze of hubris.
Leadership, statesmanship,
is not found on Twitter.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 Dec 16
I love how orange now means trump! lovely poem @JamesHxstatic
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 Dec 16
@JamesHxstatic yeah, in my head now he is an orange troll doll
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
31 Dec 16
@Jessicalynnt Well, thank you very much. I was hoping that reference would be evident.
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@sallypup (61219)
• Centralia, Washington
1 Jan 17
Discovered change in an old, soft jacket pocket
returns the feel of Mole's End
and yet once I again walk that slope, it'll be new
beginning, ending, yet bound in another year
I'll set my joints to the task
lighter footed yet older.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Jan 17
oh what a lovely tribute to the end and beginning!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
1 Jan 17
end, begin, old, new, change
My daughter once told me that there is nothing more consistent than change.
One career ends, another begins.
You can grow old worrying about change.
Embrace it and new happiness will be yours.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
1 Jan 17
@Jessicalynnt I had just changed jobs within the school where I worked. I was not happy. My daughter played a role in helping me adjust.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Jan 17
@ElusiveButterfly yeah, I am not thrilled with mine atm, but it's not a bad job
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Jan 17
nothing more consistent than change, that is a lovely line!!! Good use of the words and nice poem too.
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
31 Dec 16
end, begin, old, new, change
To end to all these changes,
From the old to the new.
It's time to rearrange.
All the beginnings and all the adiues
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 Dec 16
oh short, sweet and lovely!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 Dec 16
I hope you have an even better next year than this one was!
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
1 Jan 17
@Jessicalynnt It would be great if that would happen. This one was pretty good, at least how it ended.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Jan 17
@just4him yeah, this ending is actually pretty good, money issues aside
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