Prompt 10 – Decade (Pantoum)

A pantoum, with some extra repetition just for fun. As ever, thanks for to Jacob for the generator.)

For reasons unknown, the generator won’t work for me on Chrome today I had to ‘edge’ out of comfort zone and use an alternate browser. – KHT

Decade (Free Verse)

Year one, paper, 2013
A decade of you and I.
Still connected, with help from Atlas.
Year ten, tin, 2023.

A decade of you and I.
Celebrating, commiserating, challenging, laughing
Year ten, tin, 2023.
A decade of you and I.

Celebrating, commiserating, challenging, laughing
Year one, paper, 2013
A decade of you and I.
Still connected, with help from Atlas.

KHT Jan 2024

Atlas is a reference to a poem by U. A. Fanthorpe we read at our wedding.  Its from her collection, Safe as Houses, which is all worth a read. 

Atlas
There is a kind of love called maintenance
Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it;
Which checks the insurance, and doesn’t forget
The milkman; which remembers to plant bulbs;
Which answers letters; which knows the way
The money goes; which deals with dentists
And Road Fund Tax and meeting trains,
And postcards to the lonely; which upholds
The permanently rickety elaborate
Structures of living, which is Atlas.
And maintenance is the sensible side of love,
Which knows what time and weather are doing
To my brickwork; insulates my faulty wiring;
Laughs at my dryrotten jokes; remembers
My need for gloss and grouting; which keeps
My suspect edifice upright in air,
As Atlas did the sky.

UA Fanthorpe, from Safe as Houses (Peterloo Poets, 1995)