Ideas don’t make stories
Don’t make books
Don’t make poems
(Well, maybe poems)
Ideas prompt scenes
Prompt theme
Prompt plot
In Three Acts
Constant questions
Create conflict
Resulting in
Fanciful fiction
Creative genius only speaks if I write.
© Hilary Clark, 4/28/14
Gun metal mixed
with sterling silver
and pewter
Leaden stormy seas
peppery with slate,
smoke,
Smoky
ashen battleship
granite flecked
with water drops.
Rainy day colors
pressed back
by gold light
in the window.
© Hilary Clark, 4/17/14
Someday you’ll be
nine years old
on roller skates
in shorts and a purple tee
careening down the sidewalk
at the end of a rope
yanked by your extra special
BFF and before you
roll straight off
the curb into traffic
she will catch you in a
giant best friend bear
hug and you will
smile brighter than
the summer sun.
© Hilary Clark, 4/15/14
Hilary Clark ~ Pining for Poetry 