Yesterdays
dreams
in a drawer
Paperbacks promised
cascade dog eared
devoured
once a Word
was enough
Mother Nature’s
Country boy
reaching
Across the universe
across the daffodils
distracted
abandoned
Ask me why?
Bad boy?
Because?
Please, please, me
Carry that weight
slide it close
Writer
dried up pens
inkwell waiting
yellowed clippings
recordings
ramblings
No Reply
so Shout
“I would love you for a 1000 years”
really?
yes Real love
Like dreamers do
Imagine
Sit beside a mountain stream
hit play
today
Don’t let me down
and just Do, do, do, do
one time.

∞

Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).

Today’s prompt:  Day Ten:  It’s called “Junk Drawer Song,” and comes to us from the poet Hoa Nguyen.

• First, find a song with which you are familiar – it could be a favorite song of yours, or one that just evokes memories of your past. Listen to the song and take notes as you do, without overthinking it or worrying about your notes making sense.
• Next, rifle through the objects in your junk drawer – or wherever you keep loose odds and ends that don’t have a place otherwise. (Mine contains picture-hanging wire, stamps, rubber bands, and two unfinished wooden spoons I started whittling four years ago after taking a spoon-making class). On a separate page from your song-notes page, write about the objects in the drawer, for as long as you care to.
• Now, bring your two pages of notes together and write a poem that weaves together your ideas and observations from both pages.

30 Poems in 30 Days

All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck

…. more of my original Poetry on EatsWritesShoots here.