The bitter eclipse of circumstance
An acrostic poem
Each morning, as the world comes slowly back into focus, she re-
calibrates; striving to find a sense of purpose in the
life she is fighting bitterly to forge, brick-by-brick, arduous, often thankless work.
It will get better, she tells herself, when all the
pieces are lined up perfectly; when I find the
space again to open myself to wonder, a mesmerising sliver of light at the edges. A sense of
emptiness echoes inside her. It is dark, and she fumbles to place the next and the next and the next and the next and the next.
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Beth Sarah
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In Eclipse Challenge Winners
Creator Dane BH is one of our Vocal stalwarts. We’re so grateful to all of your in our Vocal community, and so thrilled by your achievements. This is the third time Dane has won one of our challenges, and she appears too on our Vocal podcast, Write Here, Write Now — take a listen if you haven’t already. But she’s not our winner because we know her: the subtlety and simplicity of we watched the world go dark. together. is what made it our winner of the In Eclipse challenge, with the grace and ease of its lines and observation. As it happens it also expresses the community spirit that means so much to us.
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Comments (3)
Wow, Beth! That was a concentrated dose of REAL with phenomenal word choice and placement. Remarkably written!
Hope she never gives up. Loved your Acrostic!
Beautiful, this is beautiful. Lots of hard-worn honesty in this piece. Well done, Beth!