On the island where I’m from
On the island where I’m from, the poets are the most important people and, of course, everybody is a poet. The poets all wear red and because everyone is a poet, everybody wears red. It is a beautiful island where the people sway like red lilies, or short red poppies, or medium-sized red beebalm in the slight breeze that comes from the ocean that is a little red itself, due to the coral beneath the surface. And twice every day, at sunrise and sunset the sky is red and orange and some purple, too, and the poets come out to sing their poems, the world echoing with their red song.
I wrote this prose poem today alongside middle school students, inspired by poems by Nin Andrews in her book, Why God is a Woman, all begnning with the phrase, “On the island where I come from….” An example of hers:
http://www.versedaily.org/2015/ontheislandwhere.shtml
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Great imagination and visions!
Good prompt! Especially like the red beebalm. And the image of songs in a color. –wonder how much the poem would change with a different color?
Wow, thank you for sharing the link!
❤️🔥
I love the rhythm you’ve built into this, and of course…the red!
Love the red and the diversity of flowers that the island-dwellers resemble! “People sway like red lilies, or short red poppies, or medium-sized red beebalm.”