Landscape

Try your hand today at writing your own poem about a remembered, cherished landscape. It could be your grandmother’s backyard, your schoolyard basketball court, or a tiny strip of woods near the railroad tracks. At some point in the poem, include language or phrasing that would be unusual in normal, spoken speech – like a rhyme, or syntax that feels old-fashioned or high-toned.

While there was ample access
to greens and parkways
We preferred the urban infrastructure
The lamp-post and alley ways
We could kick the football
Against the wall
Vault over neighbours fences
Count to ten, yes
Our landscape, was less land
more undergrowth, burrows