Thirteen Ways to Look at Rocks

1.

Fiat
A word, and among other things
There was a rock.

2.

Water flowed from the rock
And he, holding his staff,
Stared in awe.

3.

Laughing,
Edmund Hillary stood atop
A great rock.

4.

He grasped a smooth rock,
Fit it in his sling,
Said a prayer…

5.

The moon shone on a rock;
Elsewhere the sun shone on another.

6.

Water lapped in pallid sheen
About a rock, protruding.

7.

From his crumbled castle
A fool glared covetously
At the wise man and his cottage
Built on a rock.

8.

Igneous: diorite, basalt
Sedimentary: limestone, shale
Metamorphic: slate, granite

9.

The lower class rocks
Are thrown, unwanted, free
While the upper class rocks
Are cut and held captive
In museums and jewelry

10.

Jack fell down
And broke his crown
Behold, the power of rocks.

11.

He threw a stick at him,
He threw a rock back,
Bones were broken,
Having said nothing about
The injurious power of words.

12.

They killed Oreb
At the rock of Oreb
And Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb
Ironic.

13.

Elijah stepped on this rock.
It was thrown at a scruffy desert animal.
Blood was spilled on it in a barbaric battle.
It rested in the shade of a Joshua tree.
Later it would be rolled
Under the chariot wheels of Alexander the Great.
Flung into a river, where it drifted downstream.
Swallowed by a fish and taken to the ocean.
The fish died, decayed, and the rock washed onto dry land.
Years later, caught in the shoe of a random traveler,
It was flown to the United States,
Pulled out in a church parking lot,
And lost in the gravel there,
Where it remains to this day.
Who knows where it will be tomorrow.

Note from the Author:

This was a writing exercise I had in high-school. I find writing prompts like this are a great way to warm up your creativity.