POEM STARTER
You are out walking when you see a person sitting alone on a bench under a Willow tree, crying. Write a poem about them.
This could be written as though you are observing the person but not interacting, or as though you have approached the person and offered to help.
A Girl Named Hope
There’s a weak soul beneath the weeping willow
Yet I hear a small buzz from their radio
Signal is lost and hope has gone with it
While a poor old soul is forced to submit.
From my park bench I sit an watch
The playing children and the Geese flock
The late bloomed flowers
From summer showers
Yet the soul and vessel I watch from a distance.
Looks awfully detached from existence
As I see a speck of rain
Drown my friend in pain.
The soul I don’t know
Yet I’m oddly attached
If only he saw what I could see
Maybe, just maybe
They’d leave their tree
