Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo suggestion: “here’s our prompt for the day, once again taken from our archives and, as always, optional. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write an abecedarian poem – a poem in which the word choice follows the words/order of the alphabet. ”
Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day suggestion: “For today's prompt, we have our third two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts, and they are: 1) Write a love poem, and/or . . . 2) Write an anti-love poem. As longtime participants know, this is my favorite prompt, which is why it returns every challenge.”
Merging all three prompts again: the single NaPoWriMo and the double PAD. So, an abecedarian that is about both love and anti-love.
Springtime
Almost everyone —
boys, girls, women, men, all genders,
cats,
dogs,
even goldfish (no, not
fish) — almost everyone loves spring!
Great days now and on the
horizon, mellow sun, pleasant nights.
I too love spring. Well,
just a bit. Some part of me
knows that spring is also something not to
love. Spring is when
marigolds, ragweed, chrysenthamums,
nettles, sunflowers, daisies, various
ornamental grasses, baby’s breath, what-have-you
produce pollen, that
quick danger for us
resistless, defenseless hay fever
sufferers.
Two kinds of spring:
unbelievable beauty of nature coming back to life, and
vile assassin making our lives unbearable again, the
worst time of year. We can only
X out these spring days.
You lovers of spring can have it. The rest of us will
zing all the way through to the first snowfall.
—Draft by Vince Gotera [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]
Alan's poem today is a reverse abecedarian, starting at Z and working its way down to A. The crowning achievement here is that Alan uses only one word per line!
Counterintuitive
Ziploc
your
Xanax
where
vapid,
unengaged
teachers
synthesize
requisite
quizzes.
Put
off
nurturing
morons.
Let
kids
joke
in
here.
Get
friendly.
Every
damned
chance,
be
affectionate.
—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]
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2 comments:
Entertaining poem, Vince, but sorry for your seasonal suffering. Members of my immediate family have the same complaint, but I've escaped hay fever throughout my life. This time of year, though, when the pollen is so thick in the air it dusts our cars green, even I sneeze and sniffle at times. Alan: yes, bravo! The 26-word abecedarian is hard to pull off - just getting them to make coherent sense is a challenge, but you did it very well.
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