Book I Can’t Forget
#22 of 31 days of May SCWBI Challenge – A Haiku for you

Stay gold pony boy
Outsiders read on repeat
Childhood book of choice
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton was by far the my most read book growing up.
Some nights I would read it twice. Tears streaming down my face knowing what was coming. Hopeful I wouldn’t hear “Lights out!” before I finished.
The featured poem by Robert Frost is gold that has stayed with me. Well aware I will not stay, so leaving a breadcrumb to keep the gold alive.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
BY ROBERT FROST
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Pieces prompted by play from today –
Saloni Joshi shines her light on the invisible cloak worn by the assailant of mental health
Indra Raj Pathak thought provoking tanka on the relationship between money and health
Bob Jasper’s ode to good health
If I have missed any others that have been prompted by this challenge in the last day, I apologise…please give me a nudge and I will add them to the next prompt. At the conclusion of the challenge I will create an index to all the rippling treasures this prompt uncovered.
“book you can’t forget”– today’s prompt from the 31 days of May challenge being run by SCBWI West (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) …if anybody feels like participating, join in as you please.
