Day 12 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023

Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo suggestion: “another (optional) prompt from our archives. Today, I challenge you to write a poem that addresses itself or some aspect of its self (i.e., 'Dear Poem,' or 'what are my quatrains up to?'; 'Couplet, come with me . . .').” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt today is to “write a sound poem. On day six, we wrote poems that smelled; today, let's write poems that play off sound. This could be a poem filled with rhymes or alliteration, but it could also be about listening to sounds that are being made.” Today, I'm merging both prompts by addressing my poem from Day 11 and telling an anecdote that has a loud sound in it. A Note to Yesterday’s Poem Dear Poem: Yesterday a poet friend said on his blog that I was writing all curtal sonnets this month. Not quite, but I do like them. You’re the exception, prose and haiku poem. So today, back to curtal sonnets. Amanda’s third Fourth of July, she was ready for the fireworks. She strode away from Mom and Dad, stood apart, tall, feet planted wide and hard. When the first sky- rocket launched and exploded, BOOM, she fled                         back to us. “So loud! Why?” —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]             Image by kurt duschek from Pixabay In today's poem, Alan similarly addresses his own sonnet in the form of a sonnet! A Petrarchan one. Annoying Sonnet Constraining me this way may irritate me somewhere near the middle, where the ideas have a brand-new focus. There might be an unintended, sad debate about a hidden message. It’s too late to stop you. I know you don’t even care, because you’re not complete. You’re unaware of how your comments hurt, but why berate a newborn thing? Still, you’re not innocent. You want to make somebody feel. Intent affects result, and you exasperate the situation like a malcontent. My sonnet, damn it, I could never hate you, since you’re mine, but I’m the worst for wear. —Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Alan, I think this is a better poem than you think it is. Interesting innovation too by ending the poem not with the expected "-ate" rhyme but rather the "-ere" rhyme from earlier in the sonnet. Brilliant! Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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