Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “Today’s challenge is a fun one: write a poem that takes the form of the opening scene of the movie of your life. Does it open with a car chase? A musical number? A long scene panning across a verdant plain?” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “[W]rite a scary poem. Your poem could invoke monsters, release spiders, or tremble at the mystery of the night. It could contemplate taxes or the prospect of public speaking. And don't forget the dread of the blank page.” Today I'm merging the prompts by cheating on the movie scene: I'm cinematizing not my own life but someone else's: Dante Alighieri. On the off chance someone might not know what I'm referring to in today's poem, the opening lines of Dante's Divine Comedy are "Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the straightforward pathway had been lost" (The Inferno, Canto I), as translated by Longfellow in 1867. Also, I'm using a form Robert Lee Brewer recently invented as a poetic game, the Wordy 30, which plays on the online word game Wordle that's currently an international viral craze. Opening Scene Here's what this poem might look like in a Wordle-type matrix.
To end, an interesting coincidence: at the start of The Divine Comedy, the main character (Dante himself, fictionalized) gets lost in the woods on Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday to Catholics). What's interesting? Today is Maundy Thursday! Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone. ヅ |
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You're welcome! It's challenging to get a coherent image or idea out of just 30 letters, but you pulled it off very well.
Thanks! You're doing well this month too!
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