Writing poetry with Skylar

I spent the day with my grandchildren yesterday,  and some of it was spent writing poetry with Skylar.  We decided we make a great team - no room for modesty here! Here's my take on the process,  followed by our co-written poem on owls - 95% of which Skylar should get credit for. 

Writing Poetry with Skylar

She's just like me
when words flow
from brain to pen
to spill across the page 
in urgent haste.

No thought, no planning
where the poem is going,
she just dives in,
allows the words to take her
to the next line,
the next rhyme. 

Only when she gets stuck
do I suggest what might come next - 
a description, an action,
a different turn of phrase;
she clutches at it, catches it,
runs with it, spins it 
into something of her own. 

Mostly it comes unaided, straight
from her eight year old heart. 


© Copyright 2023. Chris Auger. All Rights Reserved



Owls

as you settle down to bed
sounds of owls come in your head
soaring through the sky at night
you might think it is a fright
but when at last you come to see 
it is revealed as a mystery.

the barn owls are hunting for their kid
flying in between, above and mid,
the storm is brewing, but they don't care
they soar through the dark midnight air,
looking for shrews, or rabbits or mice
anything that will taste very nice. 

© Copyright 2023. Skylar Bear and Chris Auger. All Rights Reserved

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