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Don't Turn Around Challenge - The Prompt: Write a poem about the feeling that something is behind you. You sense it before you see it. This challenge builds on anticipation and the fear of what stays just out of view. Stay with that feeling of being followed or watched. The presence may never fully appear, but it should shape the poem’s movement and tone. Think about how the tension sticks even when nothing is proven. What’s left unseen can feel just as strong as anything you show.
By Denise E Lindquist6 months ago in Poets
The Hand That Reached Back
The path was already there, though I could not remember stepping onto it. It opened beneath my feet as if the world had been waiting for me to notice it. Grass leaned softly against my ankles, bright with the kind of green that looks impossible until it is right in front of you. The air was warm, but not heavy. Sunlight poured through the high leaves in broken streams, touching the ground in gold and then disappearing again beneath patches of shade. It was not a field, but it was open like one. It was not a forest, but it breathed like one. The place refused to be only one thing. It stretched wide enough to run and deep enough to get lost. It gave room to laugh, but kept secrets between the trees.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Poets
