Poetry: Day 12

And now for our prompt! Yesterday’s was a doozy, so today’s is much more laid-back (and optional, as always). It comes to us from Dr. Cynthia A. Cochran of Illinois College:
Here is a great prompt for anyone who likes to write descriptive prose but shudders at writing poetry–and it really works:
Describe in great detail your favorite room, place, meal, day, or person. You can do this in paragraph form.
Now cut unnecessary words like articles and determiners (a, the, that) and anything that isn’t really necessary for content; leave mainly nouns, verbs, a few adjectives.
Cut the lines where you see fit and, VOILA! A poem!

Growing up we journeyed by car
to the family cabin on Flat Head Lake each summer
We played on the dock, scrambled up and down
ladder cut my soft feet climbing up and down
Old wood stove, always cool, wondered how it
heated during the winter
The dock had initials carved in to it that
made my cousin realize her mother had been married before
The boats never worked but one could always
fish off the dock and never catch anything
The red rubber raft was always fun to push out
as it was tied to land and safe for the adults
to not need to watch us the whole time
Such fun memories of walking around
and throwing stones in to the lake