If you haven’t checked out Mightybell, you must. It seems a relatively new site, but the aim is simple. People post certain challenges meant to enrich users, many made up of a series of steps on the way to a goal. I’ve only started exploring the site, but so far I’ve signed up for two challenges including Kaspalita’s “Experience the world more deeply in 7 days (write small stones).”

The aim here is to write short pieces called “small stones,” a haiku-like prose poem. I’m personally not going to follow the form of small stones, but will stick to my own prose poem style to complete the challenge.

I must say, however, that I love the spirit of Mightybell.

Here’s how Kaspalita’s challenge begins:

Step one

• Take the time to really look at something today. Go into the natural world (a park, your garden, your neighbour’s garden) and let something catch your eye.
• Examine it.
• Write it down.

And here is my entry:

Tree of gold

This morning, the sun shone on a tree with gold leaves that lives in my backyard while the green leaves on the trees nearby, the ones that hung in the shadow of my house, seemed to bow to the golden tree, whose leaves stood tall above the long and drying grass.