Written for D’verse Poets Pub: https://dversepoets.com/2021/06/14/quadrille/
“smudge”.
as a verb:
to cause (something) to become messily smeared by rubbing it.
Inside
Within the small walls
confined to a tiny place
there resides a fear
that exists only here
willing itself
to escape
Within the small walls
witnessed on an empty wall
a dark smudge of ink
making one think
that someone
wanted to get out
Stine Writing 
Mysterious, this little smudge!
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hmmmm…😄
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Certainly sounds like someone was trying to get out.
I like this take on the prompt. Nicely done poem.
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Thank you!
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Very interesting way to think of an ink smudge, as if someone is behind the wall wanting to get out! Love this. 🙂
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Thanks.
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Sounds like a desperate writer 🙂
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Like trying to get the thoughts out of your head onto paper!
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Wow, Christine. You know this feels surreal to me… kinda like a cross between a mystery and sci-fi… I liked it!
-David
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Thanks David!
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Such a powerful image, that little smudge of ink, the only trace of someone’s desperate struggle to escape. Haunting words!
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Thanks Ingrid. I think I was going for a little spookiness.
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