Are you following our Write it…! board on Pinterest? This images is all inspiration and puddles, perfect for February poetry.
Take a rainy day walk (imagine weather if climate does not permit) around your neck of the woods. Go people watching like this artist did. Write about a particular person or group you come across. What do you think that person’s backstory might be? Who are his/her friends? Where is he/she going? What does he/she hope for? What is he/she afraid of? Does that person call to mind certain memories, either childhood memories or recent experiences? Weave those memories into your narrative!
Example:
Bagpipes and Pajamas
Perhaps my craziest memory
is that of the man who sat in the quad
sometimes, playing bagpipes in his pajamas.
I don’t remember why he would do that—
perhaps I never knew. Perhaps
he was a transfer from Scotland,
and missed home while walking in the tangle
of graffitied metal of downtown warehouses.
Perhaps he always wanted to travel abroad,
and spent his nights drinking in the sound
of shafts of sunlight breaking through grey clouds
onto green hills: all I can recollect is his music
wafting around town at midnight some nights,
hearing those sweetly broken bagpipe
notes float out into the night,
starless with impenetrable smog.
-Constance