
Just one
Fish in the sea
Of all humanity
Swimming towards eternity?
You matter!
Cinquain
Just one
Fish in the sea
Of all humanity
Swimming towards eternity?
You matter!
Cinquain
Faces are all around me
Young, old, dark, light,
As far as I can see
Faces are all around me
Some sad, some friendly
Some mad, some drawn tight
Faces are all around me
Young, old, dark, light,
Triolet
There are so many faces we see daily. Sometimes I don’t take the time to look at every face but other times I make a point to focus on each face I see. I guess that’s called “People Watching” and it can be very interesting.
I see you
Walking about
Standing on the street corner
Holding a cardboard sign that says
It all
Cinquain
You matter
Amid masses
Of all humanity
You are unique, special,
Needed
Cinquain
Wanting and wasting are we
Living in a plastic worldly tent
Of high tech commodity
Wanting and wasting are we
Our waste destroying the sea
And littering our enviroment
Wanting and wasting are we
Living in a plastic worldly tent
Triolet
This poem is based on an “up-ended” meaning of this phrase: “waste not, want not”
This is actually a proverb which means:
if you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance, you will never be in need.
This was one of my mom’s favorite sayings. She lived the the Great Depression. We would all do well to learn to do this nowadays.
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 13
we challenge you to write a poem in which the words or meaning of a familiar phrase get up-ended.of a familiar phrase get up-ended.
Circles
All different
Yet all are the same
Outside, what differs is what’s
Inside
Cinquain
[NaPoWriMo–Day 28–Found Poem or Blackout Poem] [April 2014 PAD Challenge–Day 28]