2014 APRIL PAD CHALLENGE: DAY 1

"Two-for-Tuesday" prompt: You can write to both, or try to mix them together in one poem.

1-Write a beginning poem. Today is the beginning of this challenge. It's also the beginning of April. But there are so many other beginnings: Beginning of a relationship, beginning of school, beginning of the rest of your life, and so on. Pick a beginning to write about.

2-Write an ending poem. Often, though not always, beginnings come as the result of an ending. Sometimes endings are cause for disappointment, heartbreak, or numbness. Other times, endings are celebrated. Capture an ending today.

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THIS IS MY EFFORT: Posted at 7:03 pm e.s.t.


MATERIAL MATTERS


In theory

The universe began big

With a bang

A mass of celestial

Objects hurtling through space

The final frontier

That cosmic micro-wave

Heating up

Radiating

Always expanding

Speeding towards

A collision course

With itself