WUSTL Life/Lines (4/15/20)

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.

Silent
Oxygen
Truth
Dedication
Owl

The truth is hidden
like the legs of an owl
and silent
like oxygen.

It takes some dedication...

— James B. Moog

ALSO

A silent moonlit dance.
against the silhouette
of an owl’s desire

Behold its prey, straining
for oxygen, in dedication
to its own truth.

— 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 #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!

WUSTL Life-Lines (4/14/20)

April 14 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. Gift Fall Brief Still See Send us your poem via our Submissions page or post on Twitter or Facebook using the hashtag # lifelines . I submitted a haiku this time: Spring’s gifts are so brief. Still, I long to see Summer, Fall, and Winter too… -James B. Moog And another poem: The fruit of knowledge, overripe, a gift of gravity after a brief fall. We see only the necessary. -James B. Moog

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