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Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Threshold

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

the tea
Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a quick poem based on this excerpt from “A Secret of Life” by Claire Coenen—from our recent poem delivery at Every Day Poems.

…

I find starry
bouquets
of color—
crimson,
apricot,
and yellow
at the threshold…

Your Pour

In Claire Coenen’s poem, she finds bouquets of color at a threshold. Perhaps you are facing a threshold today? Take a moment to write a poem using “at the threshold” as either an opening, middle, or closing line in your poem. What do you find at the threshold? Show us in full color in your poem. Then add to the comment box below (with a touch of cream and sugar) so other poetry club members can enjoy.

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  1. Bethany R. says

    June 17, 2024 at 4:35 pm

    anticipation
    of my alarm’s music
    (sepia-toned string serenade) pulls me
    across the threshold
    from my nap-world into

    my bedroom’s cream light
    filtered through sheers, cutting up
    shadows

    I close my eyes again, chasing thoughts
    running away like squirrels
    barely catch the movement of a last one
    scampering across a moss-green branch
    hesitating

    then gone

    Reply
    • L.L. Barkat says

      June 18, 2024 at 9:05 am

      I especially love the echo playing between “sheers” and “cutting up.” Also, the poem’s threshold structure, with the center narrowing as a kind of pivot and then the tiny line at the end feeling like something slipped over the threshold.

      I’m also thinking about how dreams are their own kind of threshold, or can be. 🙂

      Thanks for sharing, Bethany.

      Reply
      • Bethany says

        June 18, 2024 at 11:35 am

        Thanks for the close reading and sharing your reaction, L.L. Dreams both get us out of the house, and sometimes further in. Curious traveling.

        Reply

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