Poetry Friday round-up is with Kay at A Journey through the Pages.At Today’s Little Ditty, this month’s ditty challenge has sent me for a loop. Michelle interviewed Calef Brown here, and he challenged us “Write a poem or a story about two anthropomorphized objects.”
At first I tried to write about two birds on a wire, but they weren’t speaking to me. Then I grabbed a bag of story starting cubes and rolled a mountain and a star. As I revised this poem, I decided to try a reverso. (See Marilyn Singer’s explanation and model poems here.) I have not been terribly successful with this form. I can’t seem to make the two verses from different perspectives, but I want to be a player in the ditty game, so here it is…
Mountain Sparklers
To mountain high
old star appears
spiraling out of the sky,“Shine like a sparkler.
Be who you are.”In a spray
of light flakes,
Mountain glows
old with wisdom
from Star, his friend.From Star, his friend,
old with wisdom,
Mountain glows
of light flakes
like a spray.“Be who you are.
Shine like a sparkler
spiraling out of the sky.”Old star appears
to mountain high.Margaret Simon, 2018
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