"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Yeah, well. Sorry, WCW, but I've never liked your famous poem very much. Oh, it's nice enough as far as it goes; a nicely depicted Still Life With Wheelbarrow. Next.
But, ne'er let it be said (did you like my use of the very poetic "ne'er" there?) that Fireblossom isn't open to being proven wrong, or goofy in the head, or something.
So, your challenge is to write a new poem with the opening "So much depends upon...." and take it from there. That's it! No haiku.
15 comments:
Just don't eat my damn plums!
Well, I love it!
Thanks! It helped to reflect ...
Thank you, Shay...I'd been wanting to do this...I'd seen the same poem elsewhere recently and was liking that opening line!
...an attempt at humor. Thanks, Shay, for an interesting and unique challenge.
Thanks for the challenge Shay. I had never heard of the poem.
I like the red wheel barrow.. but my favorite imagirst poem is by Ezra Pound (a poet I otherwise dislike)
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
But I guess these imagirst poems can be uncomfortably close to haiku :-)
Love it.
Have a good weekend rolling in red wheelbarrow poems, thanks to Fireblossom
much love...
I LOVE this prompt, Shay. Thank you!
Have you read Love That Dog, by Sharon Creech? It made me LOVE WCW's Wheelbarrow poem. So much.
Hey Shay--this is a lovely prompt and loved your poem. I wrote a draft but have been very busy and don't know whether I can work on it enough to get up. Thank you very much though. k.
A second one.... just for fun (just a poem that sounds the same)
Pardon my slowness, but I *will* get around to everyone this weekend. For those who so kindly asked, Skittles seems to be on the mend. :-)
Hey Shay--hope Skittles fine soon. That is stressful. I come in under the wire as it were. Take care, k.
Really late with my entry, but still wanted to participate. Glad Skittles is mending. :-)
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