Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about a very large thing. It could be a mountain or a blue whale or a skyscraper or a planet or the various contenders for the honor of being the Biggest Ball of Twine.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “[W]rite a power poem. Your poem could somehow involve electricity, solar power, fossil fuels, wind, or water. It could illustrate a power play or someone exerting their power over someone else. Of course, you could also write about a power outage.” Today, my poem merging the prompts is a kimo, an Israeli variant of the haiku, with this syllable pattern: 10-7-6. Out of the Mouths of Babes
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I was thinking along the same lines earlier, Vince, with Russia as a huge domineering bear. Then I read that article on Jeff Bezos and got inspired. Nice kimo!
The poem is a wonderful example of a kimo, something I only just learned about thanks to you. And fulfills the parameters of the challenge perfectly. Very nice.
Bruce, thanks. I was inspired by your kimo on the war two days ago.
Thanks, Paula. I just learned about the kimo a couple days ago from Robert Lee Brewer's "Write Better Poetry" blog. You should try one. I'm just learning. Brewer says it should be a "single frozen image ... like a snapshot."
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