The Lucky Strike

Prompt: After reading Margaret Atwood’s Butterfly, write your own narrative poem which features a discovery. Similar to Atwood, introduce your character in stanza one, and reveal a change in your character due to the discovery. 

Trees wave while wind blows high

A man trespasses as he tells his parents a lie.

He wanders mesmerized at this barren open land

Which he then finds that its rather bland

He wanders on - drained, knackered and bleak

His body frail, legs weak

Soon trees and bushes cover his eyes

As the man looks for a certain prize

Dusk settles in -  the man perseveres

Some strange pop noises the man hears

They came from afar but it felt rather close

To him it felt like he was beside a ghost

He follows this feeling like it was his mother

He walks through the field with no cover

Though cameras abroad and guards near

He knows that the prize won’t be queer

That feeling sinks in, like he knows his fate

He knows that this would not be bait

A large shed can be seen from afar

The shed looks rather bizarre

Antique and old

Yet still a chunk of gold

He dashes towards it at full speed

Yet he doesn’t know where it will lead

He creaks open a door as quiet as a mouse

He finds an old dead bomb straight from Laos

Plick! Goes his flashlight, illuminating the room

What he sees will be his life’s little ‘bloom’

Millions of dollars stacked right there,

An old WW2 relic and some others to spare

These old machines sparked him from within

A new passion with some money to begin