Scrittura Wednesday Poetry Prompt

Cliché Cacaphony

and turning truisms topsy-turvy

Wry Welwood
Scrittura
Published in
4 min readJun 16, 2023

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Leopard hanging out on acacia branch.
Image by Monika from Pixabay

Cliché

My mind is like a steel trap
rusted wide open in the mountains,
trigger plate and spring
mostly oxidized red rust
pounded into soil by rainstorms.
Increasingly thoughts dwell as molecules

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Wry Welwood
Scrittura

Wise Old Man in training, writing about trauma, healing, nature, justice, humor, poems, stories and essays. Father, son, husband, brother, counselor. he/him/his