Writing Assignment 2_White Paper

Write a poem that involve (either as subject, theme or inspiration)

• beginnings=endings
• transitions

White Paper

He sits at a desk where there is 

a stack of white paper.

The green beret and the old rifle lie aside

watching the dancing pen 

in fascination. 

Coffee is refilled 

with a night over/ the dawning coming,  

leaving voluminous black yearning 

by lines.

He smiles, being going to write the last word….

A young soldier bursts in,

“Report, sir!” “… houses were bombed, and no one survived!”

The line stops as “Love, Your…”

Silently,

he tears off the piece of paper.