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 Continue reading “Buddhas in the Park”