Writing

National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 15

2018/04/15 — 1 Comment

For Day 15, I again deviate slightly from the Napowrimo.net prompt, which is to write a poem ‘in which a villain faces an unfortunate situation, and is revealed to be human (but still evil).’

I was going to try to work with it, remembering a bit Robert Klein once did about how even the worst Nazi could still have a soft spot for a puppy—but then I read that Hitler had his people test the cyanide Eva Braun eventually took on his German shepherd (her dogs were subsequently shot), so I gave up on that idea, instead looking at a more contemporary variety of villain…

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National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 14

2018/04/14 — 6 Comments

For Day 14, I have managed to properly work with the Napowrimo.net prompt. The task was to create entries for an imaginary dream dictionary with the words provided.

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National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 13

2018/04/13 — 1 Comment

I have again managed a slight deviation from the Napowrimo.net prompt. For Day 13, the prompt is to:

write a poem in which the words or meaning of a familiar phrase get up-ended. For example, if you chose the phrase “A stitch in time saves nine,” you might reverse that into something like: “a broken thread; I’m late, so many lost.” Or “It’s raining cats and dogs” might prompt the phrase “Snakes and lizards evaporate into the sky.”

Somehow this got me thinking about the first Twilight Zone episode I mention in my poem. I couldn’t figure out how that had anything to do with the prompt, but I figured I’d follow it and see what happened. I think I sort-of figured out there towards the end. I even made up a word along the way (except it turns out it was already a real word, so never mind)…

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National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 12

2018/04/12 — 1 Comment

This poem is a slight deviation from the Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 12—‘a haibun that takes in the natural landscape of the place you live.’ I don’t particularly like haibun, a form that consists of prose followed by a haiku. At least, I have never read one that did not bore me within a couple of sentences. Consequently, I have never written one until now.

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National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 11

2018/04/11 — 2 Comments

This poem is based on the Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 11—a poem that addresses the future, answering the questions “What does y(our) future provide? What is your future state of mind? If you are a citizen of the “union” that is your body, what is your future “state of the union” address?” [sic]

Okay, it’s no State of the Union, and it’s undoubtedly a lot farther into the future than was intended, but…

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