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W3 Prompt #164: Wea’ve Written Weekly

W3 Prompt #164: Wea’ve Written Weekly
https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/06/18/w3-prompt-164-weave-written-weekly/

Sheila’s prompt guidelines

That’s what I invite you to write about this week: what remains. It might be something tangible—a physical object recovered from ruin. Or something intangible: the loyalty of a lifelong friend, or a memory that somehow outlasts the forgetting.

Loss may be arbitrary, but what remains often feels distilled—essential.

For this prompt, let’s shape our reflections into a quadrille—a 44-word poem with no required rhyme or meter. This unique form was originally created at the d’Verse Poets Pub, where poets gather weekly to distill thought and feeling into brief, potent verse.

So, what remains, for you?

When I’m Gone
I wonder what remains when I am gone
Is it just bones and teeth?
Will my hair still grow and will it be blonde
without the sun to keep it light?
Without you here I am left
with only ashes, tears, and a memory.

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  7. Christine, your closing line—”with only ashes, tears, and a memory”—really resonates with me. It carries the weight of absence with such a raw clarity and distills your whole poem’s ache into one quiet, final breath.

    ~David

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