Josie Whitehead’s Poems

Read the following page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Wheelbarrow

Then starting with: 

So much depends
upon

and using the same syllabic count per line as he did, what do you think the world depends upon which might be important to mankind?

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The Red Wheelbarrow

by William Carlos Williams

So much depends  (4 syllables)
upon                       (2 syllables)
a red wheel             (3 syllables)
barrow                    (2 syllables) 
glazed with rain      (3 syllables)
water                      (2 syllables)
beside the white     (3 syllables)
chickens                 (2 syllables)
 

Now:  My rendering with the same syllabic count per line.


B E E S

by Josie Whitehead

So much depends

upon

these small brown 
insects
settling on
flowers
on this our
planet.

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