Writing Prompt #16

I have been writing down the writing prompts that Lil Blue Boo has been posting on her blog, and while she is on prompt #40-something, I am way back on number 16.

Since I have been trying to think about craft and challenge when it comes to writing, I decided to tackle this one as a poem. I haven't written a poem in at least 3 years.

Prompt #16  -- Pick one word and write where it takes you:

CORNERED

KNOW-IT-ALL

SALTWATER

All life

is made of 

saltwater.

People say Adam

was made of 

dust.

But it was the

saltwater that brought

him to life.

Saltwater oozes 

from our pores

from our eyes.

Expressed from our

bodies when we 

are wounded.

Or when we 

are elated,

united.

Our first home is 

a dark sea of 

saltwater;

Where we learn 

to breathe

to dance.

At the end they 

drain the sea from

our bodies

And put us in 

the ground

to dry.

Peace