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POEM STARTER
‘All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue.’
Write a poem that begins or ends with this line, adapted from Alice in Wonderland. Don’t feel limited to the themes and images of the book – see where else you could go from these words.
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All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue
I took myself on a little wander
Testing my new running shoes
The mustard and buttery yellow cottonwood canopy beckoned
Oh how the orange coyote willow glow
The purple asters beginning to go to seed,
Their creamy puff balls a treat for the fingertips
The bourbon and earth smell of mesquite
I want to bottle it, the petrichor of the ripa...
To learn the ropes of sanity
Among the flowers of the strange
Innocence of humanity,
I wonder down the rabbit hole,
Told by the sun I’ll make it back,
No worries, if that is my goal.
I do count on that to be true
All in a golden afternoon,
Under the skies of cloudless blue....
Sitting on the rooftop I sang a little song
Trying to escape all my troubles, is that really so wrong?
Every time I think of you, those memories flip through my mind
like flipping through a deck of cards, each to it’s kind
your power plays and wicked ways had a tight hold on me
You locked my heart away in a cage, and threw away the key
Everytime I want to break away from your grip
I know it’s not...
he shaved his face
a little too close today.
nicked his chin
and bled a little.
stopped it with a pinch of toilet paper
before the blood ever had time to run.
somewhere outside
someone shredded their yard into clumps.
they’d let it get too long,
while the days were too short.
a girl cries.
you’ll never get to know her name,
or anything about her really,
because that’s often how things go.
but she...
Alone
Alone at last
Peace and enjoyment fills me
My love for me
Is all mine
My all mine
Sitting out on the roof
Admiring life, the stillness
I keep me from going crazy
While I stare out enjoying my life
I gaze upon this golden afternoon sky, underneath the sky of crystal blue
I love living again…....
All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of
cloudless blue
As the the weathers gets nicer
And the sky gets more remarkable every day
We must be grateful for this
For good days
Good days like today
We gotta treasure them, close to home
You never know how many good days you have left,
So enjoy all of it
Every last moment of it...
All the golden afternoon
Under the skies of cloudless blue.
I had nothing better to do,
But wait in my room.
I’d read through a book or two.
Waiting, and waiting, for something
New. After hours I’d still feel blue,
So I’d pick up my rose notebook
And write a poem or two.
Now the time would be around 12.
Life gets pretty boring when all your
Days feel like a living hell.
All I felt those da...
At the top of a hill a man walks to the peak
He scouts for a place he can lay down his seat
He places him self on a chair made of teak
To resist the winds and dark clouds that may peak
He closes his eyes to await his dreams
They day is More silent then normal as it seems
Maybe rain will come about in the wake of the noon
Or a sleet as white as the Lilium that blooms
But to his surprise an u...
All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue.
But there’s no Alice here to ponder, on the vivid azure hue.
Only me left to my thoughts, I wonder what I ought to do.
It feels like there’s no place for me, in a world that has no you.
The color in the world is fading, as it was more than likely to.
Now my thoughts are gray and formless, in my dark and silent room.
It’s hard to thin...
All in a golden afternoon
under the skies of cloudless blue
There lay are bird in a nest, singing a sweet tune
And he doen’t have a worry or has a clue
And his song so sweet as bee
Honey that all creatures sleep good that night
The meadowlark sings happy and free
As the female comes home in graceful flight
The snakes slither wither and to
The monkeys chitter with happy glee
And the tiger swift a...
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