Describe a Place

 

Three Bathtubs in Monroe, Utah

Photo by Amy LV 

 

 

 

Students - This past week, my husband and I visited our daughter and her boyfriend in Utah, and I saw my first desert and soaked in my first hot spring. While there were actually five bathtubs and two soaking tubs where we soaked (and yes, we did soak in each one), this picture of three bathtubs sticks with me. It was so strange and cool, so surprising. It makes me think about all of the many things in this world that have surprised me in the past, will surprise me in the future, and that I will never experience at all.

 

We don't travel a lot, so many of my surprises are right here at home: a new-to-me plant, an exceptionally beautiful sky, a morning of glitter-snow.  Today, consider looking around where you live, remembering places you have visited, strolling through books of places you have never been...and choose one small place and time to describe in your poem. Perhaps you, like, me, will come to a new idea as you write about a place. I realize that my imagination can always always grow.

Did you notice that I repeated the last line of my poem? I did this because I am honestly still marveling about this new picture (three bathtubs on a red hill) that now forever lives in my mind. 

Mary Lee is hosting today's Poetry Friday roundup over at A(Nother)Year of Reading with a delicious poetry potluck for these early early summer days. Each Poetry Friday, all are invited to share poems, poem books, poetry ideas, and friendship in this open and welcoming poetry community.  

I wish you delight!

xo,

a.

 

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