WUSTL Life-Lines (4/17/20)

Prompt

Write a short poem (rhyming not necessary) that includes each of the following 5 words (anywhere and in any order). Poems should not exceed 7 or 8 lines.

Soft
Glass
Honey
Gust
Rest

A wanderer, though still
I might rest
but for the cold gust
hard against my skin, now
cracking like glass.

Oh, to reside forever
in halcyon fields where
the wind flows sweet
and soft like honey…

— James B. Moog

Comments

It is snowing. Looking out the window- I sit in my room waiting (no car, unmotivated [city on COVID lockdown], oh well). The snow looks like Dippin Dots. It rests on our balcony. My wife went out, came back in; now cotton candy-like fluff all over. Only water. I wish I had my car but I really don't have anywhere I want to go. My eyes drift to the yellowing leaves, intermixed with fading greens. The ivy, by contrast, is going red. I want my car. I have nowhere to go. Without it, I feel stranded in the middle of a desert.

Proud Egg Cartoon #2

1. "This here...is Egg City" 2. "Who am I? Okay, sure, I'm an egg" 3. "But not just any egg" 4. "I'm a BAD EGG. Rotten to the CORE" 5. "I got a feverish desire for FAME" 6. "But lately...I been crackin' up" 7. "My head is all scrambled" 8. "So I'm gettin' outta' here... Leavin' Egg City for good!"

Proud Egg Cartoon #1

1: Call everyone in. Tell them... 2: I'm proud to be an egg! 3: After all...at the end of the day, it's all "over easy" 4: But all yolking (joking) aside, being an egg ain’t easy... 5: Sometimes, I think there’s something... I don’t know...growing inside me!

Mind of Moog

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