The Snowflake Chronicles

Another Day of Writing

Lesson 3 Writing Assignment
Turning on the Lights 26 line poetry Prompt Written in January 2010

Another day of writing
Beating time on a keyboard
Counting syllables in metered lines
Dawn finds me sipping a cup of whole bean coffee
Entering words into a document
Finding metaphors and similes in the rain
Getting up at 4:00 AM I sometimes wonder
How the rest of the world can sleep so late
I wonder if perhaps these lines should end rhyme
Just to fit this poem to the form
Knowledge is a dangerous thing, but
Lack of knowledge is deadly
Maybe I should have written this poem in one setting
Now the lines seem like a collection of random thoughts
One line written after the other without considering their
Possible relationships like strangers that fall in love on a cruse ship
Questions never asked haunt the mind after the
Relationship ends
Since I cannot figure out how to punctuate this poem
There is going to be no punctuation at all
Unity of theme or subject or emotion is important in a poem
Verses sometimes come out of thick or thin are with not kinship to events
Which are occurring the poet’s life or an author’s world
X is a difficult letter to find an English word for because there are so few
You can read into this poem any meaning you want
Zephyr a random wind out of nowhere and thought popping into the mind

Line count: 26