Falling

After balancing 

continually, Derek 

eventually fell 

groundwards,

head inverted, 

jiggling knees, 

lips mouthing 

nonsense orations,

plummeting, quietly 

revolving, sorrowful 

tailspin, unforgiving 

velocity.

Wild.

XOXO youth.

Zounds.

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt: I challenge you to write an abecedarian poem – a poem with a structure derived from the alphabet. There are a couple of ways of doing this. You could write a poem of 26 words, in which each word begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. You could write a poem of 26 lines, where each line begins with a successive letter. Or finally, if you’d prefer to narrow your focus, perhaps you could write a poem which focuses on a few letters, using words that repeat them.

Travels with a circus

After Katie Hickman

I can hardly bear to watch

the illusory men

of the old world.

They preside over the dead,

and, beneath the shimmering ocean,

the sun itself.

I should return to Mexico,

examine my hands –

these strange little gestures

are not my own.

A prompt from Mslexia: Pick up the closest book to you, turn to page 37. Make a poem either inspired by that page or made out of words from that page.

The book I picked up is 'Travels with a Circus' by Katie Hickman.

Note: The 2014 edition is titled, 'Travels with a Mexican Circus' (2014)