Day 15 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2014

Day 15. The halfway point. What can I say. Sad if we think about National Poetry Month as ending. But it's also got 15 good days to go yet, right? Bravo! Keep writing a poem a day, friends. And keep coming back here to check out ours. Robert Lee Brewer has a "two-for-Tuesday" prompt today: love poem and/or anti-love poem (Poetic Asides). Maureen Thorson suggests using terza rima (NaPoWriMo). "I hope," Alan says, "I hope Vince will recover from the shock that I combined the two poetry prompts today. If his mustache suddenly turns white, it's my fault." My Undergraduates Don’t Get Toni Morrison In Morrison’s Beloved, Sixo walks past thirty miles between two suns to see the woman that he loves. In classroom talks I learn priorities. “Is it just me,” one asks, “or is it nuts to go so far?” “It’s fifteen miles a night,” I say, “to be with one he loves more than his life.” Their car- eased lives make them mismeasure miles. “We all should walk it in two long nights, tops, North Star for bearings should we miss the path.” “I’d call that reckless,” someone says, “the chance he took that he’d get caught.” There’s coughing in the hall, and I dismiss them for the day. They look at me as lost; they click online and get delivered their desires. “This stupid book,” one says, who might feel love but hasn’t yet. —Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes     [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Book Cover, Beloved by Toni Morrison Oh . . . so that's what happened to my mustache. I was wondering. Good job mashing up the two prompts, Alan! From me today, a musical collage, or maybe a montage. Or whatever, whatsit. You decide. Guitar matrix of metal cross-pieces and sharp steel shine vibrate musical wood shaved into fine curves curlicues channeling bronze shimmery line waves downbeat upswing staccato fingertip jive hard plectrum bee-sting swift sustain alive vermillion green bruise echoes rise purple sheer dive ultramarine lava flows love love muse almost so close —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] It's got the word "love" in it for Brewer's prompt, or half of it anyway, 'cause I couldn't work in "anti-love" without getting clunky. Seems to me pretty clearly on love, though. Thorson's terza rima is there, in a haiku sonnet shape. And here's a little visual noodle doodle too.  ヅ Won't you comment, please, friends? To make a comment, look for a blue link below that says Post a comment; if you don't see that, look in the red line that starts Posted by Vince and click on the word comments. Ingat, everyone.   ヅ

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