The Sound of Water

I attempted to write a "golden shovel" poem based on the Day 5 prompt at NaPoWriMo. You can find out more information about this type of poetry at the NaPoWriMo website. My poem was inspired by "Old Pond," a famous haiku poem written by Matsuo Basho. The last word of each line in my poem is a word from Basho's poem:

The old pond-

a frog jumps in,

the sound of water.

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The Sound of Water

By Candace Shultz

I see my daughter splash in the

puddle and remember the old

days when I splashed in a pond;

So I ask her if she wants to go to a

pond, and she says, "Can we see a frog

that might be a prince?" We arrive, and she jumps

like the frog, landing in -

side the water. At least she didn't kiss the

frog and imagine the sound

of a hungry snake in fields of

poppy flowers. She's happier in the water.