Good for the quick poetry writing lesson.

 

“I was six years old when my mother showed me two snowy egrets in December obscured by snowfall except for a yellow foot of each suspended above the creek.”

 

The sentence tiptoes horizontally across the page like a Snowy Egret stalking across the sand. Put that egret into the air so the bird can drop down vertically for a landing on its yellow feet. Now you have a poem.

 

 

I was six years old

when my mother showed me

two snowy egrets in December

obscured by snowfall

except for a yellow foot of each

suspended above the creek.

 

                                                MCWJr.

 

 

Sentence Poems to use as models: Robert Frost (“Dust of Snow”),  William Carlos Williams, M.D. (“Poem” described as a moving cat).