poetry month: keep the change

For today’s prompt, write a change poem. This could be a poem about something that has changed or something that will change. Changing tires, clothes, or perspectives. Change left over when paying for something with cash. Feel encouraged to change it up today. — Robert Lee Brewer, Writer’s Digest

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change

Certain moments hold the weight of change

Heavy as we look back over time

After stands so starkly from before

Not even belonging to the same life

Grant me strength to carry, then,

Every burden into the light of today

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When I think of acrostic poems, generally I consider them childish. I wanted to see if I could compose one and make it seem as natural as I could, rather than having the forced feeling I usually expect from the form. I am happy with this first attempt. I’m enjoying the shorter poems I’ve worked on the past couple of days. I think editing down my ideas helps me focus on what is important to say.

(Here’s Robert Lee Brewer’s list of 100 poetic forms)

little inconceivabilities

For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Little (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write your poem. Possible titles include: “Little Guy,” “Little Richard,” “Little Mermaid,” “Little Italy,” and “Little Words That Pack a Big Punch.” I think if you think about it for a little bit, you’ll find a big (or little) poem to write. — Robert Lee Brewer, Writer’s Digest

Little known

Little did I know
how far my life would be
from what I had imagined
for myself
and my family

it doesn’t seem foolish
to dream of an ordinary future
to expect the world to be
as it always has been

yet every little thing
is different
I
am different
in a thousand ways

Little did I know