Poem: "Mountains and Plains"

[ysabetwordsmith]

This poem came out of the June 1, 2010 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by a prompt from marina_bonomi.  It was sponsored out of the general donation fund, selected by the audience in a recent poll.

Mountains and Plains

Mountains and plains
handle the vast expanse of wilderness in different ways,
but they are both expressions of wide open space.

Mountains are

Comments

Re: Nice!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Thank you! The original prompt had inspired some supplementary discussion among the viewers, so that helped.

[eseme]

swallowed by the shoreless prairie

This is why I found in college that I could not live in the midwest. I get a bit of agoraphobia, and the wide open spaces bothered me too much.