Prompt: Use the “Twenty Little Poetry Projects,” originally developed by Jim Simmerman, to inspire your poem.
Her heartbeat is the dance of rain on a rooftop
The quickstep of a marathon runner
Late-summer air tastes of leather and pine
in the commute from nostril to lung
Dew seeps through to her sandled, bare toes
Moonlight is nodding approval
It’s Mary Hatch on the street of Bedford Falls
awaiting the fateful eve
when George
will lasso the moon
The lawless dragonflies of anticipation
Silently shout “no me diga!”
in the second she catches his eye
She’s a noob in this game
that is pwning of hearts
because the park is a minefield of memories
The playground she’d visit
during youth soccer games
when she was permitted to run and buy snacks
“Come right back, Em, and be careful”
but never able to resist
The only way to
control a flame
is to fuel the fire
Two silhouettes settled on two rusty swings
that creak in the chill of mid-winter
Napakakilig ng pagmamahal
Two hearts attempting to tango