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.
A Golden Afternoon
All in a golden afternoon,
Under the skies of cloudless blue.
I stand here not
Really sure what to do
To some I must
Look lost in thought
But my mind feels empty
And my heart is numb
There is a faint
Feeling of sadness
It helps me
Feel alive
I feel the cool heavy
Wind blow my hair everywhere
I watch the
Waves under me
And listen to the
Sound of it hitting the rocks
I never realize that I
Had sat down
Or that the wetness slowly falling
Down my cheek wasn’t the
Ocean water splashing onto me
I stay here all in a golden afternoon,
Under the skies of cloudless blue
