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As I said in my last posting, I believe that poetry is a fast and efficient way to record a thought before it is lost forever. If you have only a little time you can teach yourself to use this method to preserve your thoughts, dreams, and ideas.
For Memoirs writers: If you wrote before using a rhymed poem, write again using an unrhymed structure, but choose a different topic. Write about a memory from your school days.
My daughter asked me once what I found to do in the country and I wrote this as a whimsical response to that question.
Saundra Crum Akers
Just for the fun of it
What Do You Do???
“What do you do in the country,” she asked, disbelievingly.
This question struck me funny…
So I gave her my comic interpretation.
“Well, there are frequent cat fights
and you can skunk watch when they come to eat the cat’s food.
When the buzzards circle a field, we hike
Out to see the attraction.
With a big stick and green pears, we play baseball, and when we’re tired we
watch the suicidal redbird that keeps diving at his own reflection in the dining room window.
Sometimes we hike out to survey the chicken hawks nest in the woods, pick
mushrooms or dig black snake root.
We fish, play horseshoes, make wreaths from willow branches and grapevine.
Every evening, we take a walk to the creek to listen to frog music, after which
we walk a measured distance on the road for exercise.
I paint on slate, have bonfires and wiener roasts, watch bees carry caterpillars
stunned but not dead, which they bury to feed their young when hatched. The caterpillars are in suspended animation until needed for food.
I rescue them from a living death and they recover.
We plant a garden and flowers, sit in a swing and watch fireflies at night.
What do you do in the country?
You play like children!”
The above piece of writing is sort of like a poem but maybe the word vignette would describe it better. However, you can see taht at lot is said in a very small piece of writing.