My first ever commissions for poems came in recently and I'm so excited to share one of them today! Iain, a friend of mine, placed his request and, when prodded for a subject, said, "Your prompt is write me a poem!" Which, I must admit, is a beautiful way to begin commissions.

Write Me a Poem

Write me a poem and make it sound good.
Pen me a story of faeries in woods.
Tell me of bodies which twist in the light,
Casting fiery shadows to creep through the night.
Write me an epic--a journey of strength;
Share of a hero who struggles at length.
His conflicts! His trials! He WILL overcome!
Embellished in feathers ambitions of sun.
A labyrinth winding unfolds 'twixt the lines--
You'll guide and together we'll navigate rhymes.
For whom did death stop? Are the plums in the fridge?
The fisherman leaps from Walt Whitman Bridge.
Imbibe if you must--like Hemingway said:
If you're not getting wasted you'll never be read.
When it's finished allow for a moment of pride
For the perfect creation your efforts supplied.
You've done it! A sonnet! But something is wrong...
This syllable count runs a little too long,
And now that I look I see too many lines...
Eh, fuck it, it's pretty. Write a sonnet next time.