Day 24 – ‘You are old’
NaPoWriMo prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that begins with a line from another poem (not necessarily the first one), but then goes elsewhere with it. This will work best if you just start with a line of poetry you remember, but without looking up the whole original poem.
My time is short and rushed and so is this poetic response.
It is the first poem that came into my head, that I always loved – I hope you can recognise the original from the rhythm.
‘You are old, Nana D’, young Caleb mused,
‘So why are you playing with toys?
‘It’s alright for us, as we are excused,
‘But that Lego is meant for us boys!’
‘When I was small’, I simply replied to the lad,
‘Lego didn’t exist.
‘So I played in the trees, which was all that I had;
now the Lego I just can’t resist!’
dawnfanshawe 