May 23, 2007

Write a One-Sentence Poem

Write a poem that is six to twelve lines long and contains only one sentence like the one below. Besides being six to twelve lines long, your poem should have two or more stanzas.

The New Dog
by Linda Pastan

Into the gravity of my life,
the serious ceremonies
of polish and paper
and pen, has come

this manic animal
whose innocent disruptions
make nonsense
of my old simplicities—

as if I needed him
to prove again that after
all the careful planning,
anything can happen.

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