Day 6 of NaPoWriMo and here’s the next poem.
I got this idea from the NaPoWriMo website. It suggested writing a poem with the last word of each line being a word from another poem. One of the suggested poems to use as the original was a poem called Watermelons by Charles Simic. Here is is
Watermelons by -Charles Simic
Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
And here is my effort
Buddhas in the Park
On the green
sit baby Buddhas
short and fat on
their mother’s milk. The
fathers, smiling down at the fruit
of their loins, stand
guarding picnics lest we
kids steal in and eat
their treasures. The
mothers flash an anxious smile
as bigger boys chase balls and,
emulating their heroes, spit
their phlegm unheroically out
too close for comfort. The
Buddhas’ cries reveal their lack of teeth.
