NaPoWriMo: 30 NEW Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month 2011

7. Find a favorite recipe. Now write a poem inspired or in the style of that recipe about a family secret, yours or someone else’s... OURS IS ...

Family Secrets

(breaking the hold)

Molded in fashion

iced to keep

seep in many fears

to eat while you sleep

Take a grain of knowledge

add a pinch of  mistrust

drop in some tears

bits of regret are a must

fold in some years

to fester and mourn

add those days you

wish you weren't born

keep old wounds

open and sore

observe how they make

you grieve even more

Now take a moment

to see what you learn

the mess that makes

each cried tear burn

open the closet where

these secret are kept

let them be broken

have no more contact

burn them to ashes

move on with your life

and those festering secrets

will no more bring you strife

YEP...  all gone !!
YOUR TURN
ENJOY
JL&B