Review
And now for our (optional) prompt, taken once more from our archives. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed. For example, your mother-in-law, the moon, or the year you were ten years old.
Seoraksan
Not the highest on the planet
But the highest I had ever seen
Not the prettiest in Korea
But the prettiest place I have ever been
Visability poor
at mountain top
Made you almost drop
your phone over the edge
four out of ten for visibility
Visibility poor
surrounded in mist
your slender figure
tentatively stepping
following my steps
I couldn't see very far,
But I could always see you
It was all I needed
Ten out of ten for Visability of you
Makgeolli with lunch at
base of mountain
Your laugh
Our conversation
Ten out of ten