National Poetry Month Day Fifteen

Prompt:  Write a poem about someone or something you are longing for.  Maybe it’s a new life, a new relationship or a new president.  Maybe it’s a submarine sandwich, or a person you have a secret crush on.  Consider playing with the word “desire”—maybe repeat this word in every other line, or maybe use words that rhyme with “desire” throughout your poem.

Desire

Clean air

Clean water

Cures for disease

Enough good food
Opportunity to thrive

Possibility to succeed

Better unrestricted education

Teachers paid what they’re worth

See…

Under all our garb

We want the same things.

“Friendship is born at that moment

When one man says to another: 

‘What! You too? 

I thought that no one but myself . . .’”

C.S. Lewis

“Because in spite of everything 

I still believe that people 

Are really good at heart.” 

Anne Frank