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.
Away
Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds
You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds
You think of the night, and you think of the day
Day after day, you wish you could say
You made it in life
But you balance on a knife
Yet you don’t know, life isn’t over
You finally made it
Don’t stop
Until your path is lit
You could have stopped
But you can’t be cropped
You just needed room
To take away your impending doom
You can finally soar
Up to the heights
You are free
Of that restraint
No more sad
Now you are just mad
Revenge
It’s funny
But you have to choose
If you want to grow
The sprout of hate or the sprout of love
Hate will swirl
Take over your mind
But love will ease
Your pain away