An exercise I heard from a YouTube video to exorcise Writer's block.
Make a list of all the things you did yesterday starting backwards and see if you can develop a poem from one or two items on your list....
Well, my effort didn't exactly follow the plan but here goes....
Going to the charity shops
and finding nothing.
Flicking through Netflix
and seeing nothing.
Getting a takeaway that wasn't bad.
Wasn't good.
Cleaning windows with vinegar
and buffing with newspaper
and ending up with streaks anyway.
Buying cushion covers for a friend
and deciding to keep them.
Buying a book for a child
and deciding to keep it too!
Crying at the denouement
corny as it was.
Bird App spotting
a black capped chickadee-
unlikely in European skies.
Reading a poem aloud
to an empty room.
Listening to Billy Collins
on the subject of poetic endings
which should always surprise
and wondering where this one is even going.....
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR POEM!!
Copyright 2025 Cathy Leonard
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