For today’s prompt:
- Write an experienced poem. Or…
- Write an inexperienced poem.
What do you have experience in?
Living.
How do you know you have experience?
I’ve lived a long time.
That doesn’t mean you have experience.
It doesn’t?
No you could have been living in a box.
It was a box I recall
As it wasn’t all that tall
In fact I needed to be quite small
As it was likely I would fall.
You are very inexperienced aren’t you?
Yes.
Naïve and gullible I would say.
Very much.
You believe most things you are told.
I do.
I think you may be stupid as well.
You may be right
I do try with all my might
But I have poor sight
So often I take flight.
Experience can get you places
Up there.
Inexperience can get you no places.
Down there.
Experience says you are someone.
Spot on.
Inexperience leaves you oblivious.
Written for: http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/2016-april-pad-challenge-day-5
Morpethroad 
This is an interesting conversation – it winds and rises and falls – but it is clever and fun, a little self-mocking, but then, one has to consider laughing at oneself, sometimes …. at least that’s how I read this.
Enjoyable 🙂 And I’m glad that you’re playing this challenge Michael 🙂
Thank you Pat. I think our ability to laugh at ourselves is a good way to be. Gives me plenty to write about.
Interesting how the POV changes in the last stanza. Great poem though and very wise 🙂
Thank you Mandi, yes the POV does change doesn’t it. You think that adds or detracts?
Adds for sure, makes you see the bigger picture in the end stanza.
Thank you..
Hmm, I don’t know…sometimes experience can be overrated. I mean, would you really want to be experienced in being sent to the headmaster, or having spent time in gaol, or being a complete jerk? LOL there seems to be a natural progression there 😀
You, my friend, are experienced in giving enjoyment to people through your writing and encouraging your family and friends 😉
Thank you Lyn you make a point about experience that is true. You can have too much experience in being stupid…lol
I just discovered your blog and I’m quite thrilled, going through your poems! You have a wonderfully fresh perspective on things and a great sense of subtle, subdued humour. I’m a fan 🙂
Thank you Mara, please feel free to stop by anytime, just occasionally I write something that makes sense I am sure…….but thanks for the vote of confidence I’ll continue on my merry way….