Weekly Poetry Prompt: Dialing Up Patience

For this week’s prompt from Reader’s Digest, write an antique poem. It could be about or involve physical antiques. Or maybe the poem addresses an antique way of thinking, acting, etc.

The rotary…

Be careful not to mess up or

You’ll have to start over again

Which can frustrate the most patient

 

mother,

girlfriend,

or consumer

 

but maybe it would give us a second thought to

those wasted words

those unthoughtful messages

those unspeakable wrongs we can’t undo today.