Bonfire Soup

How to write a poem

‘Bonfire Soup (How to write a poem)’

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Berry says:

“Make a place to sit down

Sit down. Be quiet”

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It might be like

Making soup

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Gather your ingredients

Your implements, your tools

A pencil, a notebook

A chair and a table

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Gather your thoughts

Your experience

Let them simmer a while

Stew. Infuse. Blend

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Remember

and note

What others have said

“Heaven is here”

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Cut it up

Add good oil

Heat it in the pan

Stir.

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It doesn’t need

To be original

Your mother’s mother

Made good soup

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A curled brown leaf

Woodsmoke in the valley

A stick man on the castle path

Tick of a bird repeating

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December sun calling

For a pink peaked cap

A couple clearing the field

below. Maybe a bonfire

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Your father’s father

made a good bonfire

With rake and barrow

And yesterday’s news

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Light. Turn

Watch the edges

Pause a while

Draw on a good pipe

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A curled brown leaf

Woodsmoke in the valley

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