"Cinquain on Life's Bridges": A Found Poem

Oprah Winfrey was quoted in the New York Post as saying, "One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn." Here is a found poem of mine in which I slightly altered that quotation from Oprah.


CINQUAIN ON LIFE'S BRIDGES
by Monty Gilmer

(A found poem: a slightly altered quotation
from Oprah Winfrey}

One of
the hardest things
in life to learn is which
bridges to cross and which bridges
to burn.

Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908),

who wrote, "Whatever your occupation may be

and however crowded your hours with affairs,

do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every day

for refreshment of your inner life with

a bit of poetry."