I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
In today’s writing exercise, Vaughn asks readers to write a poem about a first, showing the feeling of the moment.
I cheered you, head first drawing your first breath of life seven pounds: pure love
Common Threads 
Powerful–to bring a child into the world, and to relate it in seventeen syllables.
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