NaPoWriMo Day #5

 Today's prompt: "Today we’d like you to start by taking a look at Alicia Ostriker’s poem, “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.” Now try your hand at writing your own poem about how a pair or trio very different things would perceive of a blessing or, alternatively, how these very different things would think of something else (luck, grief, happiness, etc)."

I wrote two poems today inspired by this prompt, so I'll share both.

The Field

To a cow,

being blessed is 

a clear summer field,

sweet grass,

feather-soft breeze,

no flies to prick her hide,

her calf at her side.

To a fly,

being blessed is

a summer field rife with cows,

sweet blood,

feather-thin fur,

no hands to swat her still,

only drinking to her fill.

On A Burning Village

To the knight:

An oath broken

To the warlord:

A victory won

To the villager:

A home desecrated.