Today’s prompt is from Carol Stephen. It is a form called the Glosa.
Visit the site to read the complicated directions and to see some of the amazing responses.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 18 | Glosa Poem | Poetic Form | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s my attempt:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
(William Carlos Williams)
snow clouds drift
over
our valley
after
stair-step summer
ends
bitter winter
comes
weather bends
so much depends
on fickle
sun
swinging south
along
with bird flights
begun
weeks ago,
wedging
over lakes spun
upon
with visual
echoes
of industry
withdrawn,
a dormancy
deal
of last flash
gold
to mold-meal
a red wheel
turning through
eons
in coursing blood
and genes
in water and
marrow
cycles shifting in
farmer’s
slicing harrow;
barrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
One Way to Wonder 