Some days a prompt is meant to be reinterpreted. That was today for me. Susan at Verselove offered a prompt called Lingering Lines that was born of lines from plays, movies, music… Those lines that linger in your mind and replay themselves without you consciously pushing replay.

But for some reason, lingering lines became literal lines for me today. I spent some time at the Safari Park and it was the long lines of bamboo reaching for the sunlight that lingered in my mind…and inspired today’s poem.

Life’s Lines

Lines of cars

ants

scurrying

hurrying

to get somewhere

Lines of people

queuing

for tickets

for food

for the tram

for a look

Lines of light

penetrating

lingering

caressing

nature’s greens

breathing in

human

breathing out

life’s lines

grab on

hold on

embrace lines

that heal

@kd0602