With our writer’s group meeting on a holiday, I was able to bring my husband, Brent, to the meeting. The following are his poetic works based upon the prompt. The prompt was to write in the style of the provided examples by William Carlos Williams, specifically the poem called “The Red Wheelbarrow”, emphasis put upon the description of the item to tell its story.
Here are Brent VanFossen’s examples.
So much depends
upona woman’s
soft touch,shared passions,
and loveon a warm
September evening.
So much depends
upona late
summer rainfalling gently
on white
thistle down.
So much depends
upona bull elk’s
bugling.Antler rattling
begetsnext year’s
offspring.