30 Day Poetry Challenge: Day 5

My daughter Hannah suggested this challenge for our family. She wants to try writing more poetry, and she's hoping that this challenege will get her into the habit.

She, my daughter Emma, and I are all doing the challenge. Yesterday was Day 5. 

I dictated this piece to Emma on our way up to Berkshire East Ski Resport yesterday morning.

30 Day Poetry Challenge

5. Describe your favorite pair of shoes. Tell a story about the places it’s been. 

transcript 

my favorite old black converse shoes

went everywhere they could with me

uhhhhh 

no i’m sorry i’m trying to rhyme something with shoes

don’t be like that

emma 

all i can come up with is moos

or blues

shoes…

there’s an, uh…

(read that back to me?)

alright so my favorite old black converse shoes went everywhere with me

on the bike, then on the train

then all the way to NYC

my favorite old black converse shoes

i took—i would take them wherever i would go

to the boat club on the water

or to the mountain with the snow

i took them with me to Colorado

and up, to New York’s Albany

uhm

i took them everywhere I went

they went everywhere that I might be

my favorite old black converse shoes

(uhhhhh)

finally died last month you see

i carried them solemnly to the trash

their last journey was to Stratford landfill

alright obviously that doesn’t rhyme so i gotta fix that last one

actually, delete that line in the third stanza (the landfill line in the third stanza)

one final place for them to see.

(yes. wanna read that back?

there’s probably some corrections to the metre...)