Day 20 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2022

Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “write a poem that anthropomorphizes a kind of food. It could be a favorite food of yours, or maybe one you feel conflicted about.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “[W]rite a poem using at least three of the following six words. Or go for extra credit and use all six. Here are the six words:   1. Content   2. Double   3. Guide   4. Meet   5. Pump   6. Suit  ” Okay, mashing up the two prompts today. I use all six words; not just meet but also the homophone meat (said seven times in the poem — eight if you count the title), and I cheat by replacing pump with a sound-alike word, in consonance. A monorhyme sonnet, plus a Shakespeare quotation! Meat Speaks Using all of the six words: meet, double, suit, content, pump, guide That’s me, folks! I’m glad to meet ya. My girlfriend says, don’t eat so much red meat. I can’t help it! I’m all meat. I’m double meat, triple even. Sorry to all my veget- arian friends. Sorry if it doesn’t suit you, no salad here, no kale, dang it! Nothing, nothing, nothing as sweet as prime rib. I’m content to toot my own horn. Chicken, snake, rabbit, it’s all meat! Friends, take a seat, no pomp and circumstance — pffft! I’m your guide to everything meat. Did I say meat, already? I did?  MEAT! —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]             Image by artist 14070813 on Pixabay. I think this is the first time I've done this kind of sonnet in the blog. I've written here Clarean sonnets, curtal, English (also called Shakespearean), Italian (also called Petrarchan), haiku sonnets, hay(na)ku sonnets, even hybrid sonnets, but this is the first time I've done a monorhyme sonnet (where all the lines are rhymed to one sound . . . though I do use a bit of slant rhyme or half rhyme for variety in this one). Did you get the Shakespeare quotation? Othello says, "“Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!” The words pomp and circumstance have taken on an importance beyond Shakespeare's coinage. It's a very common phrase now, referring to ceremony (sometimes said dismissively); in fact, the music that's traditionally and familiarly played at graduations is called "Pomp and Circumstance." In three weeks, I'll hear it twice: first, attending graduation as a professor at our university, and second, when my daughter Melina graduates from college the next day! Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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