PAD 18 - Life/Death Poem

Here are the two prompts for today:

• Write a life poem. The poem could be about the miracle of life, the complexity of life, the game of Life, or anything else that means life for you. Or…
• Write a death poem. For most organisms, life leads to death. So this should be as full of possibility as the life poem.

Guanajuato

The pod, bigger than my little hand,

had stopped moving.

It was like paper maché - attached firmly to fence in the outdoor washing area

where we stayed, in Mexico - that summer

What was inside?  It almost scared me

with its hidden activity, its dark body in there.

Over the days, something turned,  it fluttered and rattled

I worried over it and the next day the pod was empty - tossed paper cave

Life had left it there.

It, not dead, just a shell, a home

a once-place, for inversion, conversion

for making giant wings and a future

from all of the self.

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