The May 6th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves making a list of five huge things (concrete or abstract), then writing a poem of four lines or less about it.

Since I didn’t want to use any of the examples given in the prompt, my list ended up being just four things:

self-doubt
Bertha (the giant drilling machine being used to drill the tunnel that will replace part of Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct)
climate change
life

I made two attempts at this. The first:

Finite, yet never ending
Messy, yet exquisitely designed
Difficult, yet effortless
What’s the matter with your life?

The second:

Skyscrapers strong and tall
the universe that holds us all
the entire length of the Great Wall
my self-doubt can crush them all

(6 May 2014)