Stefani, our host for the 29th day of VerseLove 2025,, is an Associate Professor of Education at Aquinas College in Michigan. You can read her full prompt here.
She writes, “Poem titles are not discussed, practiced, or modified as often as the art of crafting a poem. Therefore, I wanted to remind us again about the power of titles and how they have the potential to hold the hand of the poem and lead it to new interpretations.”
Today, Stefani invites us to create a title centered on identifying or twisting the content, theme, or purpose of a poem. She suggested letting other readers offer a title for our poems today, so here is mine, awaiting a title.
(Readers, please suggest a title)
I learned to ride a bike at the corner
of Friar Tuck and Robin Hood Roads
next door to Doc and Mama Byrd
in Reynolds, Georgia at five
cradled by Coventry
and Sherwood Roads, steeped
in peach orchards
Baptist church
and skint
knees
Common Threads 