All for the Want of a Little Afternoon Breeze

Story of the Post: This poem is in response to the weekly prompt on (broken window) at Big Tent Poetry as well as an attempt to join the National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) craze, which I just stumbled upon. So, I am going to see if I can actually come up with a poem a day for the rest of April.


The event described in the poem actually happened.  I tried to write this along the lines of the nursery rhyme "All for the want of a horseshoe nail", because, well, the whole event seems a little silly. Like a nursery rhyme.

All for the Want of a Little Afternoon Breeze

For the want of a breeze, the A/C was turned on
With the A/C on, the windows needed shutting
To shut the sticky windows, a wooden rod was used
To use the wooden rod, I leaned over bushes
I slipped.
The rod rammed.
Crash.
The window was lost.
And all for the want of a little afternoon breeze.

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