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.
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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "pride"
Pride
ReplyDeleteGo team! Go team!
Who do we mean?
We'll say it loud
Because we're proud
P-A-N-T-H-E-R-S!
This was as far as I got
How insignificant was my sin of pride
But that's because I went to a Catholic school
Back when that meant something
Catherine Powers
May 24, 2013
Copyright 2013
pride
ReplyDeleteas a parent
you might think you felt pride
at her first violin solo
or when she brought home
straight A's on the report card
or when she gets accepted
into her first-choice college
but pride is
when she calls home
and says she spent the night
in a friend's dorm room
taking care of her
not because she had a headache
or a stomach ache
or a broken leg
but because she was homesick
- Mike Fedel
May, 2013