NaPoWriMo - 5 minute poem

So my aunt told me that this is National Poetry Writing Month and that one of the assignments available from http://www.napowrimo.net/ was the writing of a 5 minute poem. It sounded like a fun challenge. The biggest challenge for me was to not pre-compose something in my head, putting it off long enough until I was finally ready to write it: 3 hours of composition and 5 minutes of writing. I wonder if God pondered in a similar way before speaking all into being and that became the inspiration this day for my 5 minute poem. Here are the things I wrote and the final "submission" at the end.

Given 5 minutes I think

Does thinking count

How long

The age of the earth is debated

by some to be young and

Creation

God spoke and it was. But how long did it take?

I'm asking poetically -- not to debate.

Did he think? Did he ponder? Did he wait?

Or did he just make it up as he spake?

Whatever he did...it's done!

4:55 minutes. Go ahead! Take the challenge. Just take a breath and start to write! This was a fun exercise.

And in like manner, I start this blog that has been blank until today...