Pairs
Last but not least, here’s today’s (optional) prompt. Start by reading Robert Fillman’s poem, “There should always be two.” Now, write your own poem in which all the verses contain the same number of lines (whether couplets, triplets, quatrains, etc.) and in which you give the reader instructions of some kind.
Only one is a wanderer
A lonely ponderer
Two together are always
going somewhere, ablaze
With twin flame of delight
and devotion, a bright
Star at night, calling out
to its partner. Don't doubt
That you can hear its echo trembling
Through lonely pieces assembling
the morning light's trace
Falling lightly from space
A red apple and green pear
an unlikely pair
Going somewhere
