Grandma at the lake cabin showing me how to haul water for the fruit tree my little job for the summer I still feel guilty I don’t recall if i watered it at all And was that the last time I saw her? Prompt: write a poem that recounts a memory of a beloved relative, and something they did that echoes through your thoughts today.
The Sweater She wears his old sweater darned at the elbow frayed on the sleeve When she’s feeling low how are you doing? I ask (I want to understand) how are you doing? I ask (It’s been thirty years) I wait for her reply You can go now, she says Come back tomorrow I’m sorry I’m not myself today. Prompt: write a meditation on grief in the form of Geoffrey Brock’s poem Goodbye. https://poets.org/poem/goodbye-0
Now I’ve seen a lot of doors I’ve lived so many places Now I don’t go far How far back do we go? Past is only seconds ago Be here now Day 29 Prompt: compare your everyday present life with your past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the reader’s mind.
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