30 Day Poetry Challenge #3: Find the nearest book. Turn to page 8. Copy the first ten words and create a poem.
From page 8 of The Hunger Games: “a few blackberries from the bushes around us. And may…”
Blackberry Time
A few blackberries from the bushes
around us and may
I hold the flavor
on my tongue
now turning purple.
The juice running down through
my fingers staining
my jeans. The vine grows
like a weed
among thorns
with this small gift of plump purple bites
never asking permission
to invade the flower bed.
Like the love of a teenager,
sweetness grows out of pain.
And a prompt from Bud the Teacher: “Some apples are gifts for special people. Others are poison. Which one is this?”
Comment: Sometimes when kids leave home, they leave behind disgusting things.
An Apple
Did you leave
the half-eaten apple
in the drawer behind
the peaches
rotting slowly?
Now that you are gone,
shall I take a bite
to remember you by?
No one is worth
the risk.
Reflections on the Teche 