Day 5: Poetry

“Choose a poem you like.  Take the last line and use that as the first line of your own poem.” 

The poem I chose is Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”  For the full text of the poem and an audio clip of its reading, go to: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377.  The last line of the poem is, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Rage, rage against the dying of the night

For tomorrow you may not continue as part of Earth’s blight.

Mother Earth is scarred by we humans’ deadly touch,

And only by our hand has the Earth been marred so much.

The end is near, or so they say.

However it ends, humankind has answers for which to pay.

But fear not my sister and brother,

As we all do come from one eternal mother.

Let us sing loud and have every voice heard!

Allow all to say their peace regardless of how absurd.

If we recognize that no [wo]man is better than the next,

Then maybe at the end we will all be allowed to rest.