Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub    (posted by Sanaa)
Poetics:  Dungeons & Derivatives

"For today’s Poetics I invite you all to play a poetry game called, “Dungeons and Derivatives.”

The idea here is to select one (from a list of eight sentences) and to change at least one word or more by replacing it with a derivative. Once you are done, unlock the muse from its dungeon and write a poem with the existing sentence."

"Could it be that this idea of healing is a seed that has been planted within us?” 


Could it be that this idea of being healthy is a tiny pit
that grows from within us?

In childhood years
we all wondered about
the circulating story
of swallowing a watermelon
pit and having it grow
in our stomachs.  Was it
only black pits or tiny
white ones as well?  How
large would it grow,
and how on earth would
they be able to remove it?

https://dversepoets.com/2021/09/07/poetics-dungeons-and-derivatives/