January poem #1

For some crazy reason, when I accepted the Ultimate Blog Challenge and committed myself to post a blog a day, I decided that on Mondays I would write a poem. I know, what am I thinking? I can't write poetry. Yet, by studying poetry, by stringing stingy words together line by line, any writer can become more attune to the finer aspects of description.

A friend of mine from Green Lake Writers Conference offers up a monthly poetry challenge. This month's challenge inspired me to pen not one but two verses. The longer one is submitted to Wilda's challenge, but the second one I share here.

I wrote a blog on this subject once. After you have absorbed these lines, check this blog post to clarify my imagery. And then let me know if you think I am completely daft. 

Dad’s New Safe

Big sister

Big safe

Little sister

Big gullible

“I promise I won’t close the door,

Just see if you fit.”

I fit

“But I have to close the door,

To see if you really fit.”

Life flashes before my eyes

It is not more than five seconds

Till I see daylight again

Can breathe again

Big sister

Best friend

Really?

Little sister

Desperate for friends

I would say.