Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day suggestion: “For today's prompt, write a second chance poem. That second chance could be a second chance at a relationship, at living life, or doing the right thing. Maybe play with whether it's deserved or not, or just dive straight into giving or taking that second chance.” Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words.” This morning, I woke up and realized it had snowed last night. Here's how my car looked. I was annoyed but also elated because I saw the possibilities for a poem merging the two prompts. A quick search through Haggard Hawks's Twitter yielded quite a few germane words. I ended up using eight (defined below the poem). Today's form is a hay(na)ku sonnet. The hay(na)ku was invented in 2003 by the poet Eileen Tabios. It's a word-counting form: first line, one word; second line, two; third line, three. It can also be reversed. The hay(na)ku sonnet is my invention: five hay(na)ku stanzas with the last one collapsed into a couplet, in order to get the requisite 14 lines. Afterwinter Here are the words I used in the poem, from Haggard Hawks tweets, in the order they appear in the poem:
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Well done, using all those arcane words. I almost used “glisk” too.
Thanks, Bruce. There were also several other words I picked out but didn't use, finally. I'll try to write a hay(na)ku sonnet in your style later in the month.
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