What a Great Idea for a Poem! (cont.)

But I certainly didn’t have time to write 6 poems yesterday. In fact, the only poem I wrote was my daily 15 Words or Less Poetry Diary poem. So if I notice things each day, I’ll always have more ideas than time to create poems, and that’s certainly true of me.

So, here’s yesterday’s list of poem inspirations:

1 – At the doctor’s office, a lady was checking in her daughter. She seemed poor and somewhat uneducated and at sea with the whole process. The clerk was showing her a paper and explaining that she didn’t have some kind of coverage. I thought a poem about what the paper said versus what her heart felt about might work. It would involve repetition, The paper says, the paper says, the paper says, because there was a sense of foreboding to the encounter. The system was an immovable force. No coverage, no treatment, no hope.

2 – As I was driving, the leaves on a tree (not aspen, need to find out species!) shimmeried in the sun, and it looked like it was covered in tiny twinkling Christmas lights. Or with millions of silver butterflies fluttering their wings. The poem would be all imagery. I wanted to try to capture the beautiful sight in words.

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