Poetic Asides blog – One Way to Wonder

The challenge today on the Poetic Asides blog is to write a trade-off poem.

Click on the link below to read others’ takes on the prompt and then, if you are inspired, add your own.

Tradeoff: A Very Old Tale

The city gate

was so narrow

that some called

it “The Eye

of the Needle”

but the rich

trader coming

from afar had

never been there

so he didn’t know.

The packs

on his camels

were wide

and bulged

out on either

side with all

the goods he

had brought to

sell, but those

who would

buy were inside

and he could

not pass

through the eye

of the needle.