2017 Poetry Marathon, Hour Eight: A treatise on shame (facsimile)

The prompt was to take a line from a poem and use it to write a golden shove. The line I used as my inspiration comes from Milan Kundera’s novel Immortality:

‘Shame means that we resist what we desire, and feel ashamed that we desire what we resist.’ (p. 330 of the 1991 Faber and Faber paperback edition)

Eighth poem of the day. Continue reading