Day 23 - write a poem that responds, in some way, to another. This could be as simple as using a line or image from another poem as a jumping-off point, or it could be a more formal poetic response to the argument or ideas raised in another poem.
On Swinging*
The verse plays in my head
each time I climb onto a swing
each time I climb onto a swing
Time transports me back
to when my mother was young
long before I came into her life
to when my mother was young
long before I came into her life
Carefree, she swings back and forth
before she was a young woman
before she was a wife
before she was a mother
before she had to carry the weight of the world
on her tiny shoulders
we have forgotten how to swing
how to thrust our worries to the clouds
disperse them
in the wind
to soar
and release our burdens
and become a child again
-Lisa
*The Swing - BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
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