Day 20 of National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) 

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to:

write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs some form of soundplay (rhyme, meter, assonance, alliteration). One way to approach this is to think of a song you know and then basically write new lyrics that fit the original song’s rhythm/phrasing.

Roughly, based on the rhythm of Cat Stevens’ Wild World…

Thoughts

When I think about the things I do
think, and I want to think of something new,
I can’t help it but to think about you.

Think. How did I get here? 

When the river runs deep, wide and slow,
as if it’s got nowhere else to go,
you know it’s teeming with life below.

Oh, maybe, maybe it’s the tide’s 
turn, I’m feeling shallow inside
and maybe if I tried, turn,
I wouldn’t have to run and hide.

So many times my eyes I’ve just kept closed.
So many serpentine and dead ends chose,
So many wrong-turned roads.

Think. How did I get here?

When I think about the things I do
think, I wish I’d thought of something new.
I wonder, do you feel the same way, too?