Written for David’s Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Hope is our PoW this week; her prompt is
to write a 10-20 line Dinggedicht poem.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
It does not remember the shore it erases.
It carries no grief for the drowned.
It moves as a thing that has always been moving,
grey under clouds, green under the sun,
indifferent to both.
At its surface, light is broken and scattered ….
the evidence of depth is the darkness beneath.
It breathes without lungs, swells without effort,
opens without invitation.
What falls into it is altered.
What crosses it is altered.
What watches it too long is altered.
It does not offer this.
It simply continues, turning the same water
over and over, older than we could ever imagine.
NAR©2026
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Nancy’s Notes: A Dinggedicht (German for “thing poem”) is a poetic form, popularized in the early 20th century, that focuses on a detailed, objective description of an animate or inanimate object. It attempts to let the object speak for itself through a detached, third-person perspective, moving away from subjective emotions to find the essential nature of the “thing”.
This is “Echoes” by Pink Floyd
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