E & All is Well - Day 5 AtoZ Challenge & Day 6 Napowrimo

 Day 5 #AtoZchallenge

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Day 6 #Napowrimo

when you and i meander in our journey

i wish we’d be together

 

yes, we are there side by side

but i can see that you are not present

 

shoulder to shoulder we lie

i check the moon and you the phone

 

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Napowrimo Prompt:

Go to a book you love. Find a short line that strikes you. Make that line the title of your poem. Write a poem inspired by the line. Then, after you’ve finished, change the title completely.

This prompt, which comes from Holly Lyn Walrath, is pretty simple as she explains it here.

I just finished reading (yesterday evening) "Strangers" by Nazik Al-Malaika, an Iraqi poet and the the line “Our silence is the echo of a frightening warning” caught my attention. Since this was fresh in my mind, I took that as my prompt and starting point. The Arabic is not from the poem though, I first wrote "all is well" and then thought to add the translation.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

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