Hello, everyone! My poem today is #103 in this year's Stafford Challenge (and #468, including last year's Stafford Challenge poem count).
Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day suggestion: “For today's prompt, write a pocket poem.”
Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “[C]ompare your everyday present life with your past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the reader’s mind."
Combining both prompts, as usual. I hope tomorrow I can finish the whole month combining all the prompts.
My Pocket Poem
Tomorrow is “Poem in Your Pocket Day.”
The last pocket poem I wrote
was 14 years ago. My life was so different
then. I was married, but a couple of months
from moving out. Like many Aprils
before, I was also having bad hay fever . . .
springtime, so much pollen in the air.
Those days were notoriously unhappy.
But today, thanks to allergy shots,
I’m free from hay fever. More important,
the biggest change of all is, I’ve met
the love of my life. Renee and I
have had a happy couple of years.
Blissful years. That’s our sweet pocket!
—Draft by Vince Gotera [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]
And here is Alan's pocket poem, combining both prompts in an unusual fashion.
The Watch Pocket
Naive university freshman,
grandparents’ first-generation student,
living away from home for the first time,
you decided to use a pocket watch
your parents had given you for fun.
It was louder than you realized,
and, during an in-class examination,
your professor said to put it away,
and you wore a wristwatch from that time on.
You flattened your nasal intonation
by speaking from your chest almost like hums,
and you made fewer one-syllable words
shift tone and pitch midway through. I don’t know
where that watch is now; when I get tired, though,
that tone shift returns with a worn tenor,
and my watch pocket holds two guitar picks,
and I teach literature about the folks
we learned to hold inside long years ago.
—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]
Don't you think that's actually a self-portrait? Very interesting way to fulfill the past-and-present life prompt.
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