POEM STARTER
Submitted by Maranda Quinn
Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds.
You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.
Write a poem that either begins or ends with this couplet.
Flowers or Weeds
My mind is like a garden, my thoughts are seeds.
I can grow flowers, or I can grow weeds.
Dwelling in the extremes
The soil does rot
Sprouting insects of darkness
Who bite at the crop
They eat at the grain
Grow glades of pain
Slashing
Cutting
Until one plant remains
A seed so dark
An idea so sweet
Erase the whole garden
Wipe out every leaf
Then sun shoots up
amidst the crying sky
To return me to the side
Of only rainbows and sunshine
A smile appears
Flowers take root
Water falls
washing rotten fruit
Grounded in extremes
I grin too wide
Happiness grabs my throat
The flowers will die
