Writing YOU poems

Write a series of poems [let’s aim for 5] using “you” as a primary factor. The poems should take a variety of approaches toward the “you.”  Begin by identifying people or groups you might like to address.  Add to this list groups (broadly or narrowly defined) that you (or the narrator of a poem) might identify with, or that you might not be part of. Let the “you” poems in our book shed light on the possibilities.  Consider, for example, “you” as your mother whom you address through a specific small memory; but also consider “you” as mothers or “you” as young mothers or “you” as an aging mother.

Once you have made your list, allow the poem to make itself; follow out whatever has been initiated.