Crossing a Little Star: Prompt

In today's beautiful poem posted on this blog, "Little Star: Week 8," the speaker--a father-to-be--addresses his child-to-be. In his very famous poem, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Walt Whitman addresses future generations who have yet to be born. (You can read the Whitman poem here.)

Too very different poems, with two speakers with very different reasons for speaking. But these two poems are similar in being heartbreaking/hopeful and gentle/powerful.

Speakers in poetry often speak directly to l...