Day 6, prompt from Writer’s Digest (http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/2015-april-pad-challenge-day-6)
“For today’s prompt, write a things-not-as-they-appear poem. Poetry is filled with metaphors, similes, symbols, and layered meanings, so this should be a softball prompt. If you’re struggling, look at your current surroundings, pick an object, and turn it into a metaphor for something. Or think of somebody in the real world (mail person, gas station attendant, etc.) and make up a secret double life for them. C’mon, you can do this.”
For Ace.
Target practice
You are a bow, it’s your job to let go
Every arrow flies all on its own
Just focus and aim, carefully stake your claim
All you launch ends up right where it’s thrown
Don’t look at clocks, when opportunity nocks
You will get a new point with the shaft
Ignore what is past, best not dwell on the last
Every shot makes a new final draft
Sometimes it’s a feather, or maybe the whether
There’ll be something you cannot control
Settle down with your quiver, know that you can deliver
Just by noticing you have a goal
~ Liesl Dineen 2015