I’m participating in Laura Shovan’s 12th Annual February Poetry Project. Each year participants create a poem each day in February and the month has a theme. One year, the theme was our bodies; this year, the theme is Games. I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy this theme (I think I identify with work more than play, although this is changing as I grow older.)

Here is a poem I wrote using the names of game shows:

Marriage

To Tell the Truth
You could Press Your Luck,
Spin the Wheel of Fortune,
Even focus with deep Concentration
And never be able to
Name That Tune,
Answer The $64,000 Question
Or resolve a Family Feud.
You might
Wipeout on
The Gong Show,
Or put yourself in Jeopardy
But that won’t tell you whether to
Win, Lose, or Draw.
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Just to know if the Price is Right|
Or the secret Password
Won’t help in The Newlywed Game
Or this 48-year Match Game.
Deal or No Deal?

More and more, I’m learning to trust that if I just start, just put pen to paper, something will come. It feels good.