Easter is a great time to have a little
fun being a kid again. Everyone loves the Easter egg hunts and the
hollow chocolate bunnies to chomp on. Just never write a poem about a
bunny. Ever. It doesn't work. I found out the hard way.
In 2009, Associated Content (now YCN)
put up an assignment available to write an Easter-themed poem. I took
this as an easy task thinking there's no way I could screw this
up—all you really had to do was vaguely mention Easter. Well,
here's proof that I could and did. Read Bunnies at Work and see what
I mean.
I guess I was just in the wrong mindset
at the time. Not only did I manage to write my hopping prose in about
five minutes, I also managed to slip in the major frustrations I was
having with freelancing at the time. If I remember this point in my
career, I was having to take on so many jobs to meet my monthly
financial commitments that I was working 60 hours a week and still
only making about $1200 a month. Actually, remembering the story
behind this poem makes me wonder why the bunny just didn't go on a
killing spree with a fountain pen.
To add insult to my already shameful
unremovable-from-the-internet poetic disaster, there's a comment at
the bottom that just made my day when I read it nearly a year after
the poem was first published. Someone named James wrote: “This is
the [wors] poem I've ever written.” You wrote it? Well that
explains it! I'm free from the humiliation. Thank you, James. Thank
you.
2 comments:
ouch...but if you don't step forward you don't learn..I am sure there are lots of other famous and not so famous writers who have done the same thing...me included... :)
Exactly... gotta take a chance to find out what you're made of. :)
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