Ashes swept...Sunday Wordle

 











Today's list of 12 words to include in a poem for Sunday Swirl- I managed a short, short story, albeit subdued.

     Flames had taken all she knew;
     there were no discerning borders drawn
     Only her identity 
     was not lost in the fire
     Charred pieces of past joys littered the way
     as she crossed the intersection where LOVE 
     meets the street of DREAMS
     She built a shelter out of tiny match sticks,
     saw a child looking for her doll,
     no doubt swept away in the wind
     and rain that came after
     and quenched the fire
   
     Lives polarized randomly by disaster's scorn,
     she found herself tending to others
     till fear subsided and calm restored
     Selfless she helped at the time of most need,
     and swept the ashes 
     and broken glass into oblivion
     Without anyone to cling to now,
     she stayed with strangers
     In the spring she planted rows of seeds
     in the lot where nothing else stood, 
     in hopes poseys would grow -
     only a child herself, finally,
     she bent her head and sobbed