Friday, April 06, 2012

Bending the Rules

Today's prompt: Write a simple poem about writing with simplicity.


I am manipulating the prompt here, I know (and this is one prompt I may come back to after this month of once-a-day poetry is over), but the sample poem was written by Mary Oliver and after reading it, I couldn't think of a thing to say. 




The Art of Perusing the Dictionary
(and writing a simple poem)

open
search
discard

find
consider
claim

ponder
scribble
toss

decide
compose
offer





6 comments:

  1. single
    words
    descend

    children
    sliding
    down

    their
    laughter
    melodic

    dont
    understand
    either

    ha

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  2. Some fun thoughts to share

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  3. read
    ponder
    agree
    accept

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  4. this is why I love you guys!

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