Here they are!
The prompt for today was: imitation. With the intent to imitate two poems the facilitator shared. That didn’t fit for me, so I went another direction. I wrote two poems, both in the general idea of imitation.
on the left reads:
in 3rd grade
I went with the crowd
“peer pressure”
or was it?
my teacher caught us
bullying, using words like
warriors use sticks and stones
I don’t remember
what we said
I do remember my teacher
making us look the girl in the eye
and apologize
shame spreading across my face
like flame
on the right reads:
in middle school
the popular girls all wore
spiral perms
in a bout of imitation
I wanted the same do
I sat in the chair of
my grandma’s hairdresser
-my birthday gift from her
that year
egg helmet
wasn’t the look I was
going for
