Entries to The Daily Poem Contest. |
| Crazy Paving This how the lakebed has rumpled its sheet shrunken by drought and silently raving thirsting for rain in its baking hard soul mud making patterns and glazed in the heat. The Inca cuts and dissects his stones fitting so tightly one to another moulds and slices and smooths and sets leaving us dreaming of playdough and goo. Jigsaw puzzles and games of Mahjong somehow I think that we’re getting it wrong if nature can play such mind-blowing games technology laughs and then goes up in flames. Line count: 12 Sorta free verse but a chant ending in a rhyme For The Daily Poem, 02.21.26 Prompt: Photo of dried and cracked mud - don’t use clay, cracked, dry, parched. |