This week’s petite pen was awakened by the spooky paintings of Welder Wings. If you need some spine-tingling inspiration, be sure to give this artists works a brave viewing. I was working on a longer poem for this painting titled, “Ossuary,” but it sort of landed in a 50 words or less category. If what’s below this nun’s habit inspires your pen, please share your brevity. Feel free to add it in a comment below or if you post it on your blog, do be sure to ping it back here.
Happy Tuesday!
Dead to the World
Beneath the habit
of the Cannoness,
a pair of unlit candlesticks,
barren shelves of poverty,
and the thick skulls
of infidels.
Unabsolved confessions
echo off abbey walls.
In pious charity,
a witness to poverty,
oblate to obedience,
she takes simple vows,
keeps the
liturgy of hours.
Dead to the world.
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