[stylist] Barbara's response to writing prompt

[Ashley Bramlett via stylist]

barbara,
nice short poem with good imagery and description.
so you must have a three your old kid or grandkid, how nice.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Barbara Hammel
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 4:28 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] Barbara's response to writing prompt

I put it as an attachment, but here it is posted below, too.  O, and I saw 
mistakes so this version has the corrections and proper line breaks.  And it 
is single-spaced, if it turns into double when I send it.

Barbara


    WHAT IS THAT?
  By Barbara Hammel

This morning I awoke to the sound of a squeaking bed,
Its very rhythmic pattern brought images to my head,
Of college years, of wedded bliss, of soaps and hotel stays,
I rubbed my eyes, the clock said four,  I laid there in a haze,
Trying hard to remember why I even hear that sound.
It yanked me from a dream of riding the merry-go-round.
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! And then it comes to me,
I've heard that sound quite frequently since he was almost three.
When he is in his "happy place" he's rocking on his head.
I try to close my eyes again and snuggle in my bed.


Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost





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