Better?

Sometimes I write impromptu, improvised words in front of my writing students to prove my work isn’t always braggable. In fact, on the way to writing something respectable, I write a lot of “not so great” as a part of the process.

 This poem, as prompted by Carry on Tuesday with Keith Ramblings is a brilliant example of such writing.

 The prompt took a lyric from the Beatles – which lead me to Google and a listen via YouTube and guess what?

Downright embarrassing poetry ensued.

In my jovial nature and willingness to write badly – I offer you…

BETTER

 My foot reached down

And swiped into place  or

Tried to swipe into place

And instead swiped the dog

On its journey to the ground

 

I hear a foreign guitar nee sitar

Or something trying toward exotic

And I consider if the guitar ever

Almost reached down and

Swiped a dog rather than

A picker or player or a Nehru

Jacket wearing crooner

My mind traveled off its

Pre-prompted course

Streaming screaming far

 

Too fast

Cliché ridden

“What’s important

lasts” and I

groan thinking

 

“I’ve got better than that…”

 I’ve got better than that?

 

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Comments

[Stan Ski]

Each day just goes so fast, 'better' will arrive before you know it.

[Nara Malone]

A lighthearted quickie. Refreshing. There's nothing wrong with that.