Writing Exercise #83

Today, one of my toddler daughters had the end of a stick in her mouth. I said, "Stop eating that stick! We don't eat sticks, silly!" and my 4-year old daughter said, "Yeah, Lulu. If you eat sticks, you will get old."


So let's riff off that. Write a poem built out of four (or however many) cinquains that tell the story of someone getting old. Make sure one of the things that made them old was something they ate. Something they saw. Something they heard. Something they felt. A fragrance. Have the first line be the person's name. If you want each cinquain to be about a different person, cool. Oh, and if you forgot what a cinquain was, here's the format: 

line 1 - 2 syllables
line 2 - 4 syllables
line 3 - 6 syllables
line 4 - 8 syllables
line 5 - 2 syllables