Day Seven ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2021

Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “[W]rite a villain poem. You could write a persona poem from the perspective of a popular villain (like Count Dracula, Thanos, or Dolores Umbridge). Or write a poem with a person doing a villainous thing (like eating the last piece of pie or littering). As always, have fun with it.” Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt challenges us to write either a shadorma or a Fib. “The shadorma is a six-line, 26-syllable poem (or a stanza – you can write a poem that is made of multiple shadorma stanzas). The syllable count by line is 3/5/3/3/7/5. . . . Like the shadorma, the Fib is a six-line form. But now, the syllable count is based off the Fibonacci sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8. You can link multiple Fibs together into a multi-stanza poem, or even start going backwards after your first six lines, with syllable counts of 8/5/3/2/1/1.” Actually, the Fib can go beyond six lines: 1/1/2/3/5/8/13/21. Sometimes they go "up" and then back "down": 1/1/2/3/5/8/5/3/2/1/1. Also, rather than syllable count, you could do word count or even letter count. Finally, there is a journal devoted to Fib poetry: The Fib Review. My poem today fulfills both prompts, and also both parts of the NaPoWriMo prompt. The speaker is a well-known villain out of Greek myth, and the poem is composed of three kinds of Fibs (counting letters, syllables, and words, respectively) as well as a couple shadormas. Bull-Headed Man a letter-count Fib, a syllabic Fib, a word-count Fib, and two shadormas O I am the worst Minotaur. The worst, I tell you people. My horns are so long they can skewer three men at once. My hands are huge, like bear paws with talons made of iron, and sinews of copper wire twisted into cables. I eat men like big red spiders devour flies. “Oh mercy!” they beg. Cry for their mothers. I bite off their heads. But my claim to fame is my staff. My brown rod. Wooden pole. All men fear my hard oak spear. I am Minotaur. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Alan did both prompts as well: a Fib and a shadorma, each on a villain. First, the Fib. Satan To rule in Hell is to serve demonic forces empowered by one’s lunacy. —Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] And second, the shadorma. Good solid work, Alan. Elitist Fanboys Hannibal Lecter, connoisseur, has allure for pedants who denigrate Scarface fans for liking gunplay. —Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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