Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day suggestion: “For today's prompt, we have our fourth (and final) two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts, and they are: 1) Write a dream poem, and/or . . . 2) Write a reality poem. You get to decide how to blur these (poetic) lines.”
Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo suggestion: “Today’s prompt challenges you to . . . write a love poem, one that names at least one flower, contains one parenthetical statement, and in which at least some lines break in unusual places.”
Okay, here we go. A curtal sonnet working with all three prompts: love poem, dream poem, reality poem.
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Alan also did all the prompts today.
More and Earlier than You Think
More and earlier than you think
you sleep even in the time
you think you only doze. I hear
your soft snoring before I drift
off while remembering the pledge
we made each other years
ago that each of us could when
the other was asleep fiddle
around a bit as long as the fiddler
did not awake the fiddlee,
delight of the mischief stemming
from the thought budding
in our imaginations like violets
(because affection is innocent,
unlike the rose, whose stem is thorny
and likely to draw blood if clasped).
—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]
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1 comment:
Nice romantic stuff today, guys. Vince, your sonnet reminds me of the Celtic myth of the selkies, beings who could shapeshift between human and seal form.
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