As the Bottle Spins

Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is “bottle.”

The Bottle Spins

The perfect summer sunlight filled the empty bottle
once stopped it held a warm vibrating light
the bottle sat on a shelf like a secret to not tell
waiting for a winter darkness that was right

once stopped; it held the warm vibrating light
when he reached for the shelf and grabbed the bottle
during a the winter darkness that was right
he placed it on its side in the center of the table

when he reached and grabbed the bottle
and hoped as he gave it a spin
placed on its side in the center of the table
it felt like real life could begin

And she hoped as he gave it a spin
that she would stop the neck of the bottle
it felt like real life could begin
but then the table wobbled and it toppled

that she would stop the fall of the bottle
or the bottle still sat on a shelf with its secrets
but the table wobbled and it toppled
the perfect summer sunlight in shattered regrets

Published by marialberg

I am an artist—abstract photographer, fiction writer, and poet—who loves to learn. Experience Writing is where I share my adventures and experiments. Time is precious, and I appreciate that you spend some of your time here, reading and learning along with me. I set up a buy me a coffee account, https://buymeacoffee.com/mariabergw (please copy and paste in your browser) so you can buy me a beverage to support what I do here. It will help a lot. View more posts