Poetry Month Prompt #17

April 17:

Write a poem with each line representing a year of your life (you can do it in calendar years e.g.
1989, 1990, 1991 etc, or in ages e.g. aged 29, 30, 31). Key in a controlling metaphor from that
time for you. You can jump years or birthdays. They don’t need to be consecutive.

From the Muse Library: Alphabet for the Lost Years by Susan F. Schaeffer.

Y

The house keeps its secrets
Like Victorian ladies.

Slut,
The yard cannot do it.

It riots.
There are weeds.

At the throats of the roses
Tiny Teeth

At the leaves of the weeds.
Maniac,

The grass grows like hair
Torn from a scalp.

Stray cats set up camp.

The owners rush out
With rakes, with hoses

Restoring order
As if

There was something to do.