For today’s prompt, write a memory poem. Pick a memory, any memory. It can be a significant event, but sometimes there are beautiful insignificant moments (that ironically are very significant–quite the paradox). Mine your memories to come up with something good today.
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Here’s my attempt at a Memory Poem:
“where are you now”
the day began with a race through the woods
& ended in a random parking lot near the mall
he joked as the incense smoke filled his van
& she shared what she loved & hated & i loved
them both & still don’t know how we got there
or how we got home but that’s how it was
in those days one surprise after another &
feeling like it would never end or begin
every day an adventure that was destined
to end with him laying across the tracks
& she disappeared somewhere in texas
like smoke that drifts out a window
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He loved his high school days and friends.
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