Stine Writing and Miniatures

W3 Prompt #176: Wea’ve Written Weekly

W3 Prompt #176: Wea’ve Written Weekly
https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/09/10/w3-prompt-176-weave-written-weekly/

Jaideep’s prompt guidelines

This week, we’re playing with contrast:
Write a poem where form and content are at odds.

  • Use a light or playful form (for example, a limerick, clerihew, double dactyl, skeltonic, or nursery-rhyme rhythm).
    • Or simply write in any style that sounds upbeat through its meter, rhyme, sing-song cadence, or playful repetition.
  • Then employ that cheerful sound to convey weighty subject matter — loss, mortality, injustice, or other serious themes.

The tension between the bright form and dark content should create an unsettling or thought-provoking effect.

Extra twist (optional): Work the word echo into your poem.

Missing You

The sound of your voice, an echo to me
Reminds me of how it used to be
With all of our lives laid out ahead
I’d never imagine you would be dead.
I miss you forever, I miss you right now
Its hard to live without you, I don’t know how
Our old life is gone, its not coming back
Now I’m stuck alone to pick up the slack.

©2025 CBialczak

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