WRITING PROMPT

Did Someone Say Challenge?

Calling all poets and teachers!

So much depends on that morning cup of java. (Image design by author)

We depend on so many things in this life. From the air we breathe to our Smartphones working, life finds us relying on a great deal.

The late poet William Carlos Williams wrote a profound yet simple poem about his take on something as basic yet essential for life in 1923:

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

The wheelbarrow is a symbol — a vital instrument for agriculture. Food is life. Perhaps that’s why William Carlos Williams chose to use the color red.

Red represents blood and life. The wheel barrow sustains and fosters this life.

Without the wheelbarrow, where would civilization be?

Our 21st Century Wheel Barrow

So, what is the quintessential wheelbarrow our modern-day lives depend upon? The answers are infinite and open, as always, to our unique perceptions.

Here are a couple of 2023 wheelbarrows I created: