And now our (optional!) prompt: keeping to the theme of poetry’s value,
Wallace Stevens famously wrote that “money is a kind of poetry.” So
today, I challenge you to write about money! It could be about not
having enough, having too much (a nice kind of problem to have), the
smell, or feel, or sensory aspects of money. It could also just be a
poem about how we decide what has value or worth.
The things most valuable usually are things
cat burglars would leave behind:
Countless journals scrawled in from childhood
Photographs, both old and new
Data of our home-made films while backpacking Europe
children's books to flip through
paintings of mom's, now the only copies
What does not have worth?
TVs, computers, various devices
appliances to make the life easy
to take the focus away from the things that really matter:
family, love, passion, joy, health...
Hearth
1 comment:
He'll yah.
Post a Comment