It's time for the first Author Avengers piece of the year!
This month's prompt was selected by Author Avengers founder, Lou Yardley: A broken teacup, carefully mended with gold, becomes a symbol of resilience and hope.
Due to some time and energy constraints this month, I opted for some free verse poetry over a prose piece.
Of all the teacups on the shelf,
the most imperfect is my favourite.
Lilac china - streaked with gold -
riches filling every crack and chip.
Made stronger and more valuable than the rest
by all it has been through.
🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑🍵👑
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Kelsey Clarey
She/Her/Fae/Faer. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. I mostly write poetry and flash fiction currently, a lot of it fantasy/folklore/fairy tale inspired. I also like to do a lot of fiber arts and design TTRPGs.
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Comments (5)
☺️👏 Always love this analogy!
Yes, I love this idea. The gold fills the cracks but also highlights the resilience to keep going and stay together. Such a great metaphor. And a beautiful imperfectly perfect teacup.
This makes me think of Kintsugi! So special
very nice!
such a lovely, clean presentation of such complexity.