A/N: This piece was written for Real Poetic's Spilt Milk Challenge which was outlined as follows:
In this challenge, explore the theme “Spilt Milk.” Gather your emotions, thoughts, and imagery into a poem related to letting go of things, past experiences, or people.
Enjoy!
Everyone has a glass inside,
Full to the brim about to boil,
Spillage, with little force applied,
Stops the inside from spoil.
Cry over the spilt milk,
It can be terribly helpful,
To feel sandpaper before silk,
Pain before the hopeful.
To spill is not to spoil,
Watch the liquid slosh,
Let go of all the toil,
Feelings, like milk, awash.
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Comments (15)
How you have managed to cram such intense emotions in such a small number of lines is astonishing to me. It seems your writing talents know no bounds. Such beautiful writing, thank you!
stunning sentiments here. thank you!
Great work! I do hear advice so much better when it’s delivered through well-written poetry. Spilt is definitely not spoiled—great reminder; like bent is not broken. Glad I stumbled across this 😍
How did I miss this???? Omg i loved this 🥹
TWW, I love the rhyme scheme in this poem! It gave the poem an extra layer of flow and a sense of rhythm. I loved this and all the inlayed imagery you placed with in it! Clever and so well written!
To spill is not to spoil. Nice
This is beautiful. "Everyone has a glass inside." Indeed. I love this because with a few words, you remind one to focus on (or wonder) about the hidden feelings/pain/joy within others.
Love love love this concept and this poem! Beautiful work! Congrats on your placement in the challenge!! 💫
“Cry over the spilt milk, It can be terribly helpful, To feel sandpaper before silk,” Wow! I love and live by this message, and it’s so eloquently put here. Congrats on your placement in the challenge.
This is great. Congrats
Without sounding like a copycat or a broken record, this whole concept of "to spill is not to spoil" is a very beautiful way of looking at it. Thank you for this and well done on your well deserved third place ranking!
To spill is not to spoil. I loved that line so much! It was so deep!
I love this idea, to spill is not to spoil, it's kind of helpful to hold as a message.
To spill is not to spoil! I like this a lot ❤️✨
I really love this! Great message packed inside of these lines. Well-done.