Paul Halupa, one of my all-time favourite teachers once gave me a task to help me become better at songwriting/poetry. The task was simple. Every day I had to write a small "five-by-five" which is a form of poetry I believe he made up.
The only rules are these:
Each poem must be 5 lines total
Each line must have 5 words
It's not that hard of a thing to write, and for the month that I wrote them, I found that I ended up writing something I would describe as a "poetic diary-tweet."
So here's my challenge.
I'm not asking that you write one every day. (that would be awesome). I just want to get a glimpse of a day in the life from you.
Please do this, I love poems, and these will be even better because they will be from the folks I care about. (which is you!)
Just type em up and send them to me, either Facebook, email, Twitter, or comment it on here, and after awhile I'll post them on here!
Here's my first one from today, Oct 19
I rely on the rain.
It brings the sky down
to my plain, so strange
that water is like me.
We never can be still
Our skin is paper-thin
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What an overused paradox that
we are made to understand
but can't seem to grasp.