‘Don’t pull faces,’
the grown-ups always said.
‘If the wind changes,
your face will stay like that.’
It wasn’t true.
We tried so hard, but never
could fix our faces
in those wonderful distortions.
It didn't occur to us
that maybe our collective parents
hadn’t lied. Maybe
we just never caught a wind change.
Today's NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a poem rooted in 'weird wisdom,' something objectively odd that someone once told us, which has stuck with us ever since.
I'm also using it for the Poetic Asides Poem A Day prompt for day 6, to wtrite a 'minimum' poem. For my poetry, the lines are unusually short, and the poem itself is brief and to the point.
Ha ha...I've told my children this, too. Obviously, because I was told by my parents. Lovely poem!
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