Writing Prompt
POEM STARTER
Inspired by Michael Espinoza
Write a fable set to verse.
How can you recreate the moral lesson of a fable in poetry format?
Writings
 The Bad Apple 
In the Mystic Orchard, beneath the sun’s Golden gleam,
Lived two apple siblings, a brother-sister team.
Phoebe and Phillip, with peelss so bright,
Their hearts full of love, their spirits light.
One day to the orchard, a new fruit came,
A banana bright and yellow, Billy was his name.
But Johnny Appleseed, with a heart so cruel,
Bullied poor Billy, made him feel like a fool.
"Your peel's too lo...
The Fable
Peter’s mother told him not to wander out of her sight
One day Peter saw a butterfly
Dancing
Enchanting
Enticing him with it’s smile spread on it’s back
Peter snuck out of the house to inspect it further
He went way out in the field
Until he could not see the house anymore
While he was running his foot catches on uneven ground
He falls and fills the air with silent screams
The last thing h...
Did You Hear The One About
Did you hear the one about the hare and the tortoise?
Is it a lesson in perseverance?
Slow and steady leads to success
Haste always leads to failure
The braggadocio get their comeuppance
Fables are another word lies
The lesson is
Hares are bigger brawny bunnies
And no one knows the difference between a tortoise and a turtle
And the only truth is lies well told with characters familiar yet exoti...
Shapes And Sizes
The shelves lining the library are full of so many different books. Books of different colors, different shapes, and sizes.
Each individual book has its own unique structure and personality, each is loved by different people and has changed many lives.
Some books tell funny stories while others tell of our history, yet they all have their own place and meaning.
If we treated each other in the sam...
Little Red Writing Good
A young maiden
no more than ten
had cooked up quite a fable
She phoned her gran
up in Spokane
who said, "Come when you're able!"
An aeronaut
the girl was not
though she did catch a flight
While dressed in red
upon her head
a hood sat cinched real tight
She landed safe
but at the gate
the girl was swiftly cautioned
"Be careful, lassie
the world has baddies
and you're too young for coffins"
...
Cry Wolf
The wolf who cries,
Is a wolf who thrives.
Small, but hungry.
Calculated, yet naive.
Warm to the touch,
But cold to the bone.
He who cries
Has you wrapped around their finger.
Like a snake coils the very ground below her soul.
The wolf who cries,
Is a wolf who climbs
And never comes back down....
I Told You So
“I told you so”
Is never the right thing to say
And it will come back at you
With fierce indigestion
That burns and reeks and lingers
And gives you bad dreams
That wake you in tremors
The regret perched on your chest
An oversized inky crow
Beak pecking your face and neck
Watch your back
The urge to gloats sneaks behind
And infects you, seeing beneath
Your weak porous skin
A bubbling foul potio...
Slow
Together they start
They get the same chance
The tortoise was slow
And the hare—pretty fast
The tortoise is humble
The hare—he’s too proud
In fact he decided
‘Eh I’ll lay down’
The tortoise walked past him
So quiet, so slow
Then the hare woke and thought
‘He’s at the end of the road!’
He ran and he ran
But he couldn’t catch up
Next thing he knows
The tortoise was done!
Humiliated and defeated...