#poetryprompt Day 2 “Pillow Face”

The Stationer

Not gunna lie! These words created something a bit creepy folks. It could also be partly the terrible wind storm they keep calling for on the news. It was a beautiful sunny day here today, so, I hope they are wrong!

Let me know what you come up with.

Topic: A Dream About

Inspiration Words: After, Mouthing, Slimy day 2

How can you sleep? / the wind is fearsome / scratching at the windows with wet / fingernails leaving / trails like after snails on the glass / thunder mouthing its dark warnings to the hills/ slimy-green in lightning flashes / Wake up / your pillow face and look death / in the eye / whose demon clouds are rolling / closer to your bed.

About Whitney Sweethttp://fatwomenare.wordpress.comBio: Whitney Sweet is a poet and writer of fiction. Her work has been included in A&U Magazine, as well as Mentor Me: Instruction and Advice for Aspiring Writers anthology. She is the winner of the 2014 Judith Eve Gewurtz Memorial Poetry Award. Her poetry will be included in the forthcoming Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology (October 2018) and essays can be read in the Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets (2019) She is the creator and editor of T.R.O.U. Lit. Mag, a literary magazine dedicated to love and diversity. Whitney holds an MA in Communication and Culture from York University, as well as a BA in Creative Writing and English. When she isn’t writing you might find her laughing with her husband, napping, knitting, cooking, or petting her dogs.

4 thoughts on “#poetryprompt Day 2 “Pillow Face””

BeckieWrites says:

February 23, 2019 at 8:51 pm

I love the line, “Wake up your pillow face and look death in the eye…” Visceral.

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- fatwomenare says:
  
  February 23, 2019 at 9:06 pm
  
  Yes! This poem is a bit creepy haha!
  
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J.Judah says:

February 23, 2019 at 9:33 pm

I feel like that most mornings when I know I have to go to work! Looking death in the eye is looking at all of my 4 and 5 year olds 😉 #Ilovethispoem #Ilovemyjob

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- fatwomenare says:
  
  February 24, 2019 at 11:51 pm
  
  I’m happy you love the poem, but sad that going to work sometimes feels like death!
  
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