Happy Friday! This week on the blog we have another collaborative piece you can take with you into the holiday weekend.
Addey and I collaborated on a poem (poems are easier to write collaboratively it seems!) that you can read below.
To concoct this poem, Addey and I texted lines back and forth (we stole the idea from the poem Amber and Addey wrote a few weeks ago). It’s a fun way to get some inspiration if you’re feeling a little bit stuck–you never know where a poem or story is going to go when using this method, and usually it’s not where you would expect!
Try collaborating with a writer friend and see how your separate inspirations combine into one creative work, and check out our poem below!
Sleepwalker
by Nicole McConnell and Addey Vaters
What does it mean?
When you dream about someone–
someone lost to the dark abyss?
And no gravity exists to pull you to the light.
A light that glistens on broken shards of mirror
like the stars had fallen from the sky.
The sky might as well have fallen down–
it should have, but you held up the sky as every
night I dreamed to have your strength–
prayed that the falling stars would give me peace,
because every day I have to wake without you.
