How to Write Good

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Writing / January 30, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How to Write Good (for Maia, age eleven)
Granddaughter I might say
read some Ernest Hemingway
A good place to start might be
The Old Man and the Sea
Watch now how he draws arrows
pointing to an empty space
until a picture appears
If we're going to know it
you're going to have to show it
And if you want to say you're sad
Don't say you're sad -- that's bad
Try something like-
She came home after the spat
didn't even say hello to the cat
Threw herself down
and cried her way through
two
pillows
and a mattress
until the drops began to fall
on the head
of her sister in the lower bed

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1 thoughts on “How to Write Good”

barbara January 30, 2021 at 4:57 pm

i really love this one!! the whimsy made me laugh

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