WANTING poem prompt

My first boyfriend and I sat in the back row

of the little theater in Olney Hall, 

amidst human skeletons and dinosaur bones

watching a film series on Buckminster Fuller

envisioning our lives, moving back to the land

and when Bucky said: "The minute you begin 

to do what you really want to do, 

it's really a different kind of life."

We stepped into the sultry evening

and walked in beauty like the night

beneath a cloud of jasmine stars

and we believed in what was possible.

So very young, and sure-footed,

we scaled the heights of the tallest summits:
Mt. Whitney, Lyell Glacier, Cloud's Rest.

That summer we traversed the Range of Light,

the Sierras, our bed, the stars our blanket

and in alpine meadows, we made promises 

to the gods, not knowing the price to be paid.

PADI: write an instructional poem. Your instructional poem could list instructions. Or it could capture an instructional moment.

NaPoWriMo: write a poem that has the same first line as another poem. You can use a favorite poem, pick up a random book of poetry and get a first line that way, or perhaps use one of the following:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
She walks in beauty, like the night
Slowly, silently, now the moon
anyone lived in a pretty how town

I have written some poems of this type in the past, and it can be fun to take a well-known first line and do something totally different with it! But if it’s hard for you to shake the original, maybe using a first line from a random poem would be best for you.

Molly Fisk: April 8. "The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life." Buckminster Fuller


30 Day Poetry Challenge: Find a short poem (one page or less) that you love. Cross out every fourth word. Replace the crossed out words with your own choices.


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