Hour Twenty – Write a poem using any one of the following titles:

The Watchtower, Second Breakfast, Books for Beginners, The Woman with the Top Hat, Echo Husband

 

 Beginners Book of Poetry Prompts – Chapter One

 

• Get yourself a nice hot drink. (Tea works best for me but wine is fine).
• Head to the shelf where you keep old photo albums.
• It’s okay to get distracted by the last piece of cake enroute.
• Place said cake by the tea, by the chair. You will return.
• Ignore the dust on the albums, pick the one at the bottom of the pile.
• Now you can clean it with your sleeve.
• Do not open. Yet.
• Return to chair, cake, tea (or coffee/beer/wine).
• Look at album on your knee for three minutes.
• Do not open. Yet.
• Remember albums, print shops, films, cartridges.
• Do not open. Yet.
• Remember fathers writing dates and captions on black paper with white ink.
• Wipe errant tear (optional).
• Have a bite of cake, a sip of drink.
• Exhale. Sigh with comfort.
• Now open album.
• Rewind fifty years.
• Much later. Write verse.