Young Minds

 Image1:  Norman drawing a Still Life from memory

Image2: The end product, succulent fruits on a plate and flower in a vase

Two Offerings: 

#1 A haiku to wrap up September Heights in Haiku Heights

with prompt –free-

Young minds are amazing

I asked what are you to draw?

Fruits! He responded

But where are the fruits?

Here! He pointed to his head

He could draw free-hand!

#2 A free verse on people watching. 

I would relate here not exactly people watching but rather observing my grandson Norman when he went about making the sketch.

Young minds, young innocents

Ever so alert wanting to respond

With a high level of  imagination

Difficult for the elderly to fathom 

A still life drawn from memory

It is something fantastic really

Deftly he took the pencil in one hand

Across the paper a stretch of two lines

Glanced at me, smiled and confidently

drew little circles ever so slowly

turned out to be grapes and strawberries 

Bigger roundish blobs to the right following

an orange and an apple and a mangosteen. 

To hold back the rear a watermelon 

And a flower stalk in a vase, to maintain balance

Triumphantly he next began shadings for depth

A young mind still not that adept

There is an upside in free hand drawing

Anything goes anything to link

But the downside is, he is handicapped

As the shadings to profess depth

are mere conjectures falling back

on experience which he lacks

But he is learning and it’s a big show

For honing his skills the best way he knows

The path is open and only he to decide

What to pick on and which way to strike

His destiny with all stubborn persistence
The whole world wide open at his insistence

Written for Haiku Heights' Sept Ht's last prompt - free- and d’Verse where Brian is hosting on people watching