Poetry Challenge #301-U-Turn

Confession Time: I can get lost in my own home—and do! I’ll be on my way to do something, something very intentional—maybe even important—and right in the middle of the going I’ll forget what I was fetching.

Or, even with the not-so helpful help of Google Map telling me to “Head North” or “Head South” I’ll have to proceed until it tells me to “make the first legal u-turn” or not to find out for sure which direction I should be heading.

And other times, like yesterday—or earlier when I had to turn back to where I’d come from and begin again before it dawned on me where I had been going, what I had been doing in the first place.

That’s what this is. U-Turn!…beep-beep-beep backing up!. . . . Change that to You-Turn!

Poetry Challenge #301

You-Turn!

Turn back to the poems you’ve already written.

Find two (or three) that have the same or similar topics.

Read through them and mark your favorite words, phrases, or images.

Now try to combine the poems into one. You can add and take away words as needed.

Watch for sound, incidental rhyme, and strong feelings!

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing!

Don’t Think About it, Revise It!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge 2600+ days ago. Now we take turns creating prompts to share with you. Our hope is that creatives—children & adults—will use our prompts as springboards to word play time. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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