Read one of the 136,122 stories from our 20,106 authors

  • Sign in / Sign up
  • Find ABCtales on Facebook
  • Follow ABCtales on Twitter
Home
  • Home
  • Read
  • Write
  • Forums
  • Blogs

What to do?

By sarahprowls

Fri, 03 Jul 2009
  • 663 reads
 

What to do?
Everything
in
Motion
Yet no movement

Tugging, requesting, sequestering

Sounds
wash over

Daylight bathes

Nonsense pervades and
Politic stands
at the gate
Sternly and firmly
Wishing it wasn't the monster
It can see in its' scrying.

Certificate U
Poem
Then and now
Miscellaneous
Facebook Twitter 
  • Log in to post comments

Search form

Type of tale

Type of tale

Biography
Non-fiction
Other
Poem
Poetry Monthly
Story

Genre

Autobiography
Biography
Children's
Crime
Drama
Erotica
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Horror
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Journal
Love
Miscellaneous
Nature
Noir
Opinion
Other Fiction
Other Non-fiction
Philosophy
Quotations
Rant
Reviews
Romance
Science fiction
Spiritual
Surreal
Talecatching
Travel
Unclassified
Western
Young Writers

Read

  • New
  • Cherrypicked
  • News and Features
  • Inspiration point (IP)
  • Competitions
  • Great feedback
  • Picks of the Month
  • Authors you follow
  • My bookmarked stories

New forum topics

  • Free Courses available through Open University – Creative Writing & Poetry
  • AI, Corporate F*ckery, and My New Short Fiction Collection
  • Listen Like You Might Be Wrong
  • My 2009 ABC Tales piece got a mention in a 2026 YouTube video!
  • Another fund raising challenge for you. 32. Teeth Tales.
More

New blog posts

  • Weird Clouds
  • Son of September by SoulFire77 - Available for Pre-order!
  • John Gardner (1983 [1994]) The Art of Fiction. Notes on Craft for Young Writers.
  • The Mythical in Everyday
  • Son of September Available for Pre-Order!
More

About us

  • About Us
  • FAQ
  • Meet the team
  • Contact us

legal

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies

Help keep this site free! Please click the button to donate to ABCtales.com

© Copyright 2000-2007 Burgeon Creative Ideas Ltd, and the members of ABCtales.com. All rights reserved.