(Joseph MacRae, published in Writers At Play Presents: Our Legacy, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2022. From June 9, 2021)
To Last a Lifetime
A hammer,
a handsaw,
a measuring tape.
Frame a pile of lumber.
Measure your boards.
Now here's a tool
to last you a lifetime.
Cut to size,
lay them out.
Nail them together.
Now here's a tool
to last you a lifetime.
Such simple things
can build a house,
can build a home.
Now here's a tool
to last you a lifetime.
*From prompt: freewrite about advice you want to pass on, then highlight a line for refrain, highlight other parts like, and form into a bop poem; Daisy Barrett-Nash's Legacy Poetry, June 9, 2021.
Frame a pile of lumber.
Measure your boards.
Now here's a tool
to last you a lifetime.
Cut to size,
lay them out.
Nail them together.
Now here's a tool
to last you a lifetime.
Such simple things
can build a house,
can build a home.
Now here's a tool
to last you a lifetime.
*From prompt: freewrite about advice you want to pass on, then highlight a line for refrain, highlight other parts like, and form into a bop poem; Daisy Barrett-Nash's Legacy Poetry, June 9, 2021.
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