30 day poetry challenge Day 3

30 Day Poetry Challenge questions from  http://nadiasf.tumblr.com/post/7418962198/poetrychallenge


Day 3- Find the nearest book (of any kind). Turn to page 8. Use the first ten full words on the page in a poem. You may use them in any order, anywhere in the poem


I'm thinking a free verse poem would be fun.

1. churchyard
2. knife
3. finale
4. edge
5. dreadful
6. acquaintance
7. fellow-sufferers
8. foreshadowed
9. betwixt
10. circumstances

Sleep

I suppose my mother knew she birthed a heathen

when circumstances lead the family to early morning prayer

and to early mourning prayer we went

my brothers and sisters, and -I-

sat betwixt the edge of night

and the new day's dawn.

we'd often sit in the churchyard 

amoungst the retiring owls, and sorrowful  willows

reciting our dreadful prayers once again

burrowing our knees in the groves 

that previous prayers had made

and occasionally i'd look up to see

an acquaintance of sorts,

a child my age

we were fellow-suffers in that the carnal pleasures of

dreams were cut away with a knife

but in the holiest manner,  of course 

leaving those with complaints little room to speak

and even less room to hide and

If my mother's wrath  foreshadowed

finale judgment 

surly I would've been a god fearing child,

but the sweet tempting call of sleep would take me-

my wicked flesh simply could not wait for

a restful eternity

and thus, i lay my head back on the tree stump

and continued to sin in the churchyard.

  

I actually wrote this poem for a class assignment a while back...

Can you guess what book i used? I'll tell you on day 4