Prompt–Sunday, December 18
For today’s prompt, pick something from the following poem to imitate. It could be the stanza structure, the theme, rhyme scheme, meter, take your pick.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/roethke.papa.html
I chose the theme of a parent and child interacting.
Summer is a time to imagine
castles of grass. The kingdom
begins the size of our backyard,
but as you mow the edges,
coming closer to the middle,
the grassy knolls become bare.
I laugh as the lawnmower
eats the rectangles like Pac-Man.
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