Day 28 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2019

Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “I’d like to challenge you to try your hand at a meta-poem,” which she had defined earlier in the post: “meta-poems . . . are poems about poems.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “For today’s prompt, write a remix poem. That is, remix one of your poems from earlier in the month. There are many ways to do this. Turn a free verse poem into a traditional form (using lines from the original poem). Or use erasure to cut down a long poem into a short one. Or expand a short poem into a longer version. Get creative with it.” Merging the prompts again. I looked through my poems this month and found my haiku inspired by a Salvador Dalí sketch on April 21 a likely candidate for a golden shovel poem. A potential problem with golden shovels is that sometimes you get a weak line break with function words like articles or conjunctions . . . I tried to find a solution for that in this poem. Here we go . . . How to Write a Surreal Ekphrastic Haiku a golden shovel of my April 21 haiku First, you must begin with Salvador Dalí’s blue period. Wait, that was Picasso. Dalí’s elephant period, then. Kind of true, actually. Dali floats many odd, whimsical, Byzantine creatures across our eyes. You must make a common word like “the” into a storm of rainbow-hued bees. The crystal sky of your haiku must be a shimmery canvas: spindly dragonflies darting like miniature arrows, myriad legs of a centipede scurrying up the side of a skyscraper. A haiku small as a flea, but galactically huge and tall. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Detail, Butterfly Suite by Salvador Dalí (lithograph, 1969) Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. To comment, look for a red line below that starts Posted by, then click once on the word comments in that line. If you don’t find the word “comments” in that line, then look for a blue link below that says Post a comment and click it once. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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