This
blog is devoted to a select group of poets. We're starting with poets
from the Ann Arbor area, but, hey, if you're from Detroit, Grand Rapids,
Saginaw or the Upper Peninsula, then that is okay, too.
Our goal is to provide you with a prompt every day from which you are to garner inspiration and submit a poem. How to submit will be very easy. Just put your poem or short story in the comments section and hit post. You may not immediately see your post, but it is there under the "Comments" section. You may need to click on "Comments" to see your poem. It is there on another page.
You
may need to have a Gmail account to post in the comments section. Most
of you do have Gmail, but for those of you that don't it's extremely
worthwhile to open up one now! That way you've got a chance to get your
work out there in the world.
Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "orbit"
WHY WE DO THIS
ReplyDeleteWhen a ball is dropped,
it falls. Why? because it is
trying to minimize its gravitational potential.
Planets orbit around the sun
along the exact path that allows
them to maintain and equilibrium
between the centrifugal force of their travel
and the gravitational pull of the sun.
We do this
and will continue to do this
forever
because we're reached a steady state
between the way you stir your coffee
and the way I change my guitar strings.
- Mike Fedel
April, 2013