Challenge
Write a free verse poem: When you said ...
Write a 12 to 21 line free verse poem about something a parent, sibling, or significant other said to you that was surprising to you. Begin the poem with the line, "When you said ...." Remember, free verse poetry doesn't follow strict patterns or conventions such as meter or rhyme scheme.
Sick in bed
When you said that should we never touch again
You would still come around
I was not so much surprised at this saying
But I stared amazed
At how much I believed
In you and in
This, and at how I had good reason to
As I leaned into you leaning
On the kitchen sink
Each little light on in your parents’ house
I recall nights the moonbeams hit
Your eyes just right
And made me want to seep into your bones
And I remember, too
Days you wiped my snot with your hand
And clutched me to your chest
I blubbered and scratched
And you cried I love you I love you Grace
You are an unmade bed
Tousled & still warm, and I
Fully intend to return to you
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