Poetry Exercise #1, Take 1

A poem modeled after William Carlos Williams' poem The Red Wheelbarrow.

so much depends upon

light

warming the skin,

bones,

guiding our steps,

our eyes,

growing plants, grains,

cells

Author's Note

An exercise I attempted in poetry class.

We wrote poems modeled after William Carlos Williams' poem The Red Wheelbarrow:

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

This is the first of my many attempts to imitate this form.