This poem was from a poetry workshop I taught earlier this year. Like magnetic poetry, each student received a few nouns, verbs and adjectives, instructed to make a poem including those words chosen at random. I felt it only fair
My words were Umbrella, Sweet, Squirm, and Flower.
(At least I wasn’t the one who drew Meatball and Circus!)
Hodge Podge
I squirm beneath the great oak tree
impatient in my musing
while all around me sweet birds sing
their voices not confusing
each other with the meadowlark,
or the owl – it’s not his hour
insects twitter and alight
on me, the umbrella flower.
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