As you can tell, I’m struggling to keep up with this. In my defense, this is the first quarter of my entire college career thus far where I’ve been successfully kept up with class homework and readings. Mostly the readings. You’d think having been a bookworm as a kid would have made me a fast reader, but nope, I’m about the slowest bookworm in history. So actually doing the readings for class consistently is a big step for me. It only took me 6 quarters to get into a groove!
Anyway, enough excuses, back to poetry.
4. The most important qualities in a friend
Much like the gratitude one, this is a challenge to narrow down. Recently in class, however, we studied list poetry, so that was convenient timing for a prompt that is most likely going to need to be a list!
Friday Nights at 1am
We are ー
We are clattering bits of hard plastic candy on sturdy wooden tables
cheering at both a victory or a critical failure
triumph at slaying the dragon
the figures on a hexagonal grid map, a battle strategyWe are ー
We are sleepy mornings at the library cafe
typing away silently
or drawing on a trackpad
or chatting about the early morning classes that day
or chatting about classes we have next
or chatting about that paper we should’ve started much soonerWe are ー
We are a walk to the grocery store
reusable totes in tow
a single avocado at 6am
a rare kinder egg
a plan to try soy sausage
pizza and pasta on the way backWe are ー
We are iced lattes in the dead of winter
Junior Mint hot chocolate Keurig cups
a plushie, a red panda snuggle
a scary monkey puppet
a pair of betta fishWe are ー
We are everyday
We are Tuesdays at dinnertime
We are Thursday evenings
or way-too-late Sunday school nights
or waiting til the end of the week
or Friday mornings, sitting through classes
Friday midday at the cafe
Friday afternoon getting ready
Friday evening, never alone
always together
always a family
We are Friday nights at 1am.
This was a little tricky to get onto my blog. I like using spaces and playing with visuals and I had to tweak the HTML to get it to actually work on this platform but hopefully it posts the way I intended! If you’re on mobile, it’s probably super messed up. I’m sorry!
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