Trust in Friendship

It’s tricky when you and your friends fall in love with the same people.

The first time I was in Ghana teaching when my best friend’s Mum got cancer. It was a two-year contract and I nearly came home to be with her but instead asked my boyfriend to look after her. So he did.

He was Canadian and loved Dr. Seuss.

Ten Apples Up on Top
 
 
cankered mother 
first to fall
 
THUD
 
yellow bike
pillioned hug
 
SLIP
 
airport 
apple
 
TANGERINED
 
hope full 
Mini
 
BLUE
 
apple of your eye
apple for the Teech
 
CRASH
 
bundle of letters 
every eleven days
 
NONE
 
One year old Apple Up on Top
Look! See! 
It will not fall
It cannot stop
 
Bøfole Akuba
Wednesday’s woe
 
It will not fall at all
O no!
Vanessa Raison

https://www.newwriting.net/2022/12/five-poems-4/embed/#?secret=MUvMaROdbV

Idea: Choose a poem from your childhood and adapt it to write about a time a friend has hurt you.