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Sunday, September 08, 2019

Poetry Sisters Get Herpetological

Laura set this month's challenge to write a "poem comparing something with a snake — some snake pairing you think has never been done before! 8 lines or less."

Hmmmmm ... my brain has been on overload since I started my sabbatical in earnest 3 weeks ago. I'm going to blame it for my inability to follow the rules in any meaningful way. I did however come up with something that is a close tangent.

What a Herpetologist Sees

That lamp cord, that shoelace,
that bathrobe waist tie,
some pasta just rolled up
jet trails in the sky
Anguiform, serpentine
shapes all around
each place that I look
snakes simply abound

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2019. All rights reserved.

You can read the pieces written by my Poetry Sisters at the links below. Kelly will be back with us next time.
I do hope you'll take some time to check out all the wonderful poetic things being shared and collected by Sylvia Vardell at Poetry for Children. Happy poetry Friday friends!
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3 comments:

  1. tanita✿davis9/09/2019 12:00 AM

    Okay, it's not following the rules but I LOVE THIS!!!!

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  2. Janet Wong9/09/2019 8:35 AM

    Love your snake poem! They say one mark of a great poem is that it changes the way you see a certain thing forever--and you have done that for bathrobe waist ties (for me). Also love the way you embedded a five-star vocabulary word (anguiform) in this poem. I'd say that your sabbatical is doing great things for you already!!!

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  3. Sara9/09/2019 2:42 PM

    So fun. That was my experience, too---when I knew I was writing about snakes, I saw them absolutely everywhere. I love your comparisons here, but also how the specific leads to defining terms leads to personal reflection. It makes the whole thing feel balanced.

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