April 19: A word or two from Shakespeare

If I were to resolve

that moment when

an embrace became a bump,

leaving me lonely, 

howling against the dark, dark night,

then I would be Shakespeare,

a fixture on the stage, pacing

back and forth, mourning 

that damned spot,

and crying, "Out! Out!"

Shakespeare by JJ Jordon (Pixabay)

Not every thought is sun-filled on Day 48 of quarantine. Today's prompt from Robert Lee Brewer of Writer's Digest fame (and celebrating that commitment to write a poem a day for National Poetry Month), asks us to write a poem around six words that Shakespeare invented:  Resolve, bump, embrace, fixture, howl, and lonely. The result is a little dark, for I haven't read Shakespeare in decades. But I do remember the shock of Lady MacBeth (not a namesake).

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