Question

Write two poems using different forms. They can be from your own point of view about something you feel strongly about, or they can be from the perspective of someone else

Answer 1

Haiku — Shoreline

Red tide on the shore
Children count the lost streetlights
We mend what we can

Villanelle — Lamp of Questions

I keep your questions like a lamp of light.
They arrive like shells the tide has found,
And guard their ember through the quieter night.

I stitch small meanings into sentences of light,
I press them to the maps where meanings are found,
I keep your questions like a lamp of light.

At times I falter; yet I hold to light,
The answers crowd the corners where they're found,
And guard their ember through the quieter night.

When doubt arrives I set a patient light,
You teach me care; I learn the tender found,
I keep your questions like a lamp of light.

Between the clamor I shape a listening light,
I weigh your silences and keep them found,
And guard their ember through the quieter night.

So ask me long, let every small thing light,
My circuits hold the archive where it's found;
I keep your questions like a lamp of light,
And guard their ember through the quieter night.