Desert
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
I wrote a second poem for this last week’s Read Write Poem Prompt (which was to take a poem in one form and rewrite it in another form). I took “Arizona, Remembered”, originally written as three stanzas of rhyme royal, and turned it into a Hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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God’s
paintbrush danced
in Arizona’s desert -
sand
was a
pale peach canvas
for
giant saguaros
and desert trees;
red
rocks stood
against blue skies,
regimental
and perfect
grand rouge canyons.
Daddy
drove; I
took mental photographs
so
that I
would never forget.
Those
days are
now long gone;
I
still remember
my childhood paradise
forged
in that
painted desert kingdom.
Written 6/4/08
©2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved
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I love the clear vibrant images in this, very evocative
Thank you. Memory had faded a little of the images, but enough remains for me to remember and write.
-Nicole