Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt “comes to us from Stephanie Malley, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the chapters from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. The book’s table of contents can be viewed using Amazon’s 'Look inside' feature. Will you choose 'the poem squash?' or perhaps 'grocery weeping' or 'the blue socks'? If none of the 60 rather wonderful chapter titles here inspire you, perhaps a chapter title from a favorite book would do? For example, the photo on my personal twitter account is a shot of a chapter title from a P.G. Wodehouse novel — the chapter title being 'Sensational Occurrence at a Poetry Reading.'” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day suggestion: “For today's prompt, write an ekphrastic poem. An ekphrastic poem is one in which the poet writes a poem based on another work of art, whether that's a painting, photograph, sculpture, mixed media, or other piece of art.” Alan's Petrarchan sonnet today comes from both prompts; his chosen chapter from the NaPoWriMo prompt is “Snowflakes and Secrets.”
Just for fun, I decided I would also do NaPoWriMo's "Snowflakes and Secrets" to see how different our poems might be. Also doing the Poem-a-Day ekphrasis, on Grant Wood again, like my ekphrastic poem yesterday. Today's form: linked haiku — in American traditional 5-7-5 — finished off by a tanka, similarly syllabled. On Grant Wood’s January Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone. ヅ |
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Wow! Two masterful studies in form. Bravo to you both. I haven't written a sonnet yet this month, and usually I knock off at least two or three. Mine was just six lines today but yoy might enjoy the background write-up.
Thank you, Bruce--
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