tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35079717385197460042024-03-18T05:43:34.977-05:00The Man with the Blue GuitarVince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.comBlogger528125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-10755687421793924602024-02-14T12:35:00.003-06:002024-02-14T12:35:58.284-06:00Iowa Poet Laureate<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Great news! I've been selected to be Poet Laureate of Iowa, starting on March 1st. <br /><br />
I’m excited to represent poetry across the state of Iowa. Born and raised in San Francisco, and having lived a few years as a child in the Philippines, I’ve been very glad to be so welcomed in Iowa, where I have lived for almost 30 years. I’m elated to promote poetry in the state and inspire Iowans to read and write poetry, to bring beauty and art to our everyday lives.
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The webpage pictured above is at <a href="https://culture.iowaeda.com/iowa-poet-laureate/" target="_blank">https://culture.iowaeda.com/iowa-poet-laureate/</a>.<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a palinode – a poem in which you retract a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. For example, you might pick a poem you drafted earlier in the month and write a poem that contradicts or troubles it. This could be an interesting way to start working on a series of related poems. Alternatively, you could play around with the idea of a palinode by writing a poem in which the speaker says something like ‘I take it back’ or otherwise abandons a prior position within the single poem.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-30" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “write a surprise poem. This prompt was actually changed at the last minute after reading Laura Shovan's ‘<a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/how-the-neuroscience-of-surprise-can-improve-your-poetry-practice" target="_blank">How the Neuroscience of Surprise Can Improve Your Poetry Practice</a>,’ and it got me thinking about all the good and bad surprises we encounter on a daily (or almost daily) basis. Let's finish this month by focusing on one or three of those.” This Shovan article is quite a good one and gives three suggestions for writing surprise poetry.<br />
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On Day 17, I wrote a curtal sonnet called "<a href="https://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html" target="_blank">The Dandelion Wars</a>," in which I imagine a speaker with a vendetta against dandelions. In this palinode, the dandelions talk back. The surprise theme is encapsulated not only by the unusual point of view in the poem but also by what this speaker says in the final line. The poem's title is borrowed from Robert Silverberg's short story "Sundance," in which a Native American scientist dances with aliens on a distant planet, an image and narrative that inspired my characterization of the dandelions here. Again, a curtal sonnet on both prompts.<br>
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We dance in this field of eternal green, <br>
we dandelions, heads like glowing suns, <br>
blossoms of lemon-colored light, our leaves <br>
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blowing in the gentle breeze, communion <br>
of water climbing our stems, oxygen <br>
and chlorophyll, sacrament with the trees, <br>
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our brothers, all of us rising to sky, <br>
ocean of blue, bright heaven. You humans <br>
misunderstand us, you do not believe <br>
we are beings with purpose and love. Why <br>
not — surprise! — let us live? <br>
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And here is Alan's last poem for the month, with a surprise at the end. <br />
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<blockquote><b> April, I Surrender </b><br />
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Every year the same jokes among <br>
literature professors <br>
about your cruelty, forcing us <br>
to complete so many tasks, <br>
but I made my own mess this year, <br>
wanting to engage with writers, <br>
going to extra readings, <br>
presenting some of my own work, <br>
and taking a graduate course <br>
in “Appalachian Foodways,” too. <br>
Who knew you would grant me <br>
food poisoning on your last day, <br>
saving your cruelest April Fools <br>
for when I least expected it? <br>
You win, you win, you win. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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I hope you recover soon, Alan. Thanks so much for being my April poem buddy again! I always enjoy the poems you write during April. Good luck with the end of the semester.<br>
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Some great poetry news: my poem "Old Soldier, New Love," which was one of 102 poems under 50 lines nominated for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Associations' Rhysling Award (best poem published in the previous year), has been chosen by a jury as one of the 50 finalists. The association membership will vote in July to select the award winners. You can read my poem <a href="https://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/045issue.html" target="_blank">here</a>, in the journal <i>Eye to the Telescope</i> (issue 46) where it was first published. It's the 10th poem down. <br>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-29" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “For today's prompt, write a sight poem. If you can see it, poem it. If you can't see it, poem it. If you can see another interpretation of this prompt that is neither of these, then, please, poem it.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “Start by reading Alberto Rios’s poem “<a href="https://poets.org/poem/perfect-any-occasion" target="_blank">Perfect for Any Occasion</a>.” Now, write your own two-part poem that focuses on a food or type of meal. At some point in the poem, describe the food or meal as if it were a specific kind of person. Give the food/meal at least one line of spoken dialogue.”<br />
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The prime unrivalled Philippine dessert <br>
made of fruit gels, like sugar palm fruit <br>
or kaong, strips of young coconut or <br>
macapuno, jackfruit or langka, various <br>
jellies, sweetened beans, layered <br>
with shaved ice then evaporated milk <br>
poured all over, finally topped with custard <br>
or leche flan, and ube ice cream. This is only <br>
one of the many ways to make halo-halo, <br>
with diverse variations in different areas <br>
in the Philippines. The word “halo” means <br>
“mixed” in Filipino, and doubling the word <br>
suggests it’s an ultimate blend: a "mix-mix." <br>
Ever since I was a young child, halo-halo <br>
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I must be eaten right now and right away! <br>
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I am Halo-Halo. I am the ice-cold King <br>
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throughout the known world, confection <br>
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on Manila streets as well as in 5-star <br>
hotels in metropolitan paradises around <br>
the globe. I am ambrosia, I am heaven. <br>
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Alan also worked with both prompts, with the two parts being recipes in <i>Southern Living</i> and also (sort of) in <i>To Kill a Mockingbird.</i> With regard to sight, there is a mention of "eyes" near the end.<br />
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<blockquote><b> So Much Shinny </b><br />
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The editorial staff of <i>Southern <br>
Living</i> magazine authorized <br>
a revision of the classic Lane cake, <br>
giving it peach filling to augment <br>
its traditional bourbon ingredient <br>
and enveloping it all in a rich <br>
buttercream, creating a sugary <br>
icing upon fruity filling upon rich white sponge. <br>
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In <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>, Scout <br>
says her neighbor has baked <br>
a Lane cake “so loaded with shinny <br>
it made me tight.” I followed <br>
a recipe that calls for ¼ cup <br>
of bourbon, but I have seen recipes <br>
calling for two cups. There comes <br>
a point where one must acknowledge <br>
that some offer the cake as an excuse <br>
to deny their desire for bourbon. <br>
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By comparison, my Lane cake <br>
is nuanced if naked, <br>
offering filling but no icing, <br>
a subtle bourbon edge <br>
to its nutty, butter filling, <br>
a demure cake that says, <br>
“Take your time and enjoy,” <br>
permitting the eyes and nose <br>
to have their turn before <br>
the palate can. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Some good news: do you remember Catherine Pritchard Childress, who was my NaPoWriMo buddy in April 2012? She was at that time a grad student of Alan, my NaPoWriMo buddy this April (and other Aprils in the last several years). Well, Catherine has a new book of poetry titled <i>Outside the Frame</i>. Here's a link to Eastover Press's <a href="https://eastoverpress.com/books/poetry/outside-the-frame-by-catherine-pritchard-childress/" target="_blank">webpage</a> on the book. "In <i>Outside the Frame</i>, Pritchard Childress gives full-throated voice to those who are historically silenced, while bearing witness to a complex culture that both perpetuates that silence and cries out to be heard and to be seen. <nobr>. . .</nobr> <i>Outside the Frame</i> is a book of light and dark, of strong voices and wide-ranging perspectives. These poems will linger in the reader’s mind long after the last page has been turned."<br>
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I hope you will pick up a copy of Catherine's book, available on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Outside-Frame-Catherine-Pritchard-Childress/dp/1958094269/" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. Congrats, Catherine!<br>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> suggestion: “here’s our daily prompt, optional and once more taken from our archives. <nobr>. . .</nobr> I challenge you to write [an] index poem. You could start with found language from an actual index, or you could invent an index.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-28" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “take the phrase ‘You Are (blank),’ replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: ‘You Are My Only Hope,’ ‘You Are Really Pushing It,’ ‘You Are in the Wrong Room,’ and/or ‘You Are a Poeming Machine.’”<br />
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An abecedarian poem today, by necessity because of the index mode. Both prompts as well.<br />
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adrift, 29, 45, 98 <br />
astray, 1 <br />
Atlantis, 84-91 <br />
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Babylon, 63-71 <br />
Barsoom, 21-24 <br />
befuddled, 105 <br />
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castaway, 93 <br />
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disappeared, 2 <br />
discombobulated, 73 <br />
down the drain, 11 <br />
drew a blank, 56, 64, 99-102 <br />
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exanimate, 88 <br />
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fallen between the cracks, 98 <br />
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gone, 48, 72, 176 <br />
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hidden, ix <br />
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invisible, 0 <br />
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Jumanji, 179 <br />
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Kadath, 43-47 <br />
kiss goodbye, 17, 153 <br />
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Lilliput, 105-09 <br />
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missing, 124, 132 <br />
Mordor, 166-172 <br />
Macchu Pichu, 78-83 <br />
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nonexistent, 0 <br />
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off-course, 68 <br />
out the window, 2 <br />
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perplexed, 8, 62 <br />
Pompeii, 51-55 <br />
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quandary, 96 <br />
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R’lyeh, 26-28 <br />
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Shangri-La, 93-97 <br />
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thunderstruck, 9 <br />
Tír na nÓg, 183-89 <br />
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unaccounted for, 29, 96, 153 <br />
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voodoo, iii <br />
vanished, 57 <br />
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wayward, 74 <br />
without hope, 160 <br />
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Xanadu, 156-59 <br />
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Yuggoth, 28-32 <br />
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Zathura, 180 <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Alan's poem is also an abecedarian poem <nobr>. . .</nobr> an interesting exploration of the 1990s.<br />
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<blockquote><b> You Are Desperate: Quotidian Items <br />Listed in the Index for Dr. Ruth <br />Westheimer’s <i>Sex for Dummies</i> (1995) </b><br />
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Africa, 136-37 <br />
America Online (AOL) 256-57 <br />
anticipatory anxiety, 295 <br />
appearances do count, 360 <br />
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Beverly Hills Hotel, 138 <br />
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camping, 139 <br />
changing diapers is sexy, 364-65 <br />
Compuserve, 257 <br />
cooties, 279 <br />
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Desert Shadow Inn of Palm Springs, 138 <br />
doing things with your spouse, 115-16 <br />
doormats, 61-62 <br />
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e-mail, 258 <br />
English-speaking countries, 135-36 <br />
Europe, 135-36 <br />
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flat moment, 307 <br />
friendships, 51-52 <br />
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gigolos, 373 <br />
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Hawaii, 134-35 <br />
hydraulic prosthesis, 297 <br />
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icons used in this book, 5-6 <br />
Israel, 136 <br />
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jacuzzi, 162, 250 <br />
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kissing, 161-62 <br />
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Las Vegas, 137-38 <br />
local motel, 139 <br />
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Maho Bay Campgrounds, St. Johns, 134 <br />
minitels, 255 <br />
modems, 257 <br />
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newsgroups, 258 <br />
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outercourse, 179-80 <br />
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Pocono Mountains, 137 <br />
Prodigy, 257 <br />
pubic lice, 279 <br />
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radio and sex, 263-64 <br />
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Stern, Howard, 264 <br />
stuff technique, 294 <br />
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time-wasters, 62-63 <br />
TV and sex, 264-65 <br />
two-career family model, 113 <br />
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U.S.A. vacations, 137-38 <br />
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vacations, 133-38 <br />
vestibule, 33 <br />
virtual reality, 260 <br />
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World Wide Web (WWW), 258 <br />
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X-rated photos, 259-60 <br />
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you can’t hurry love, 361 <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-87750996226490659122023-04-27T21:35:00.002-05:002023-04-27T21:36:44.719-05:00Day 27 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-27" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “write an anapodoton poem. An anapodoton is an unfinished phrase that a person can fill in the blanks, phrases like 'When in Rome,' 'If life gives you lemons,' 'Speak of the devil,' and 'Where there is a will.' For many (if not all) of these, you probably filled in the second half of the phrase, because you know it so well. So write a poem either responding to, playing up, or subverting a popular anapodoton. Personally, I think it would be fun if poets make the titles of their poems an anapodoton before jumping in and poeming.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “Today, begin by reading Bernadette Mayer’s poem “<a href="https://poets.org/poem/lobelias-fear" target="_blank">The Lobelias of Fear</a>.” Now write your own poem titled “The ______ of ______,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and the second blank is an abstract noun. The poem should contain at least one simile that plays on double meanings or otherwise doesn’t quite make “sense,” and describe things or beings from very different times or places as co-existing in the same space.”<br />
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Here's today's ditty: a curtal sonnet melding the two prompts.<br>
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<blockquote><b> The Hummingbirds of Abandon All Roads Lead To </b><br />
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We all have friends who are like hummingbirds.<br>
They flit from this to that, from one thing through <br>
another. Run stop signs in front of cops<br>
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who don’t notice. Not a care in the world.<br>
They constantly win: from lotto prizes to<br>
twenty-dollar bills found in parking lots.<br>
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Lady Luck loves them. But you know we all<br>
have to pay the piper, as they say. You<br>
can’t rely on fortune forever. Gaps<br>
open in front of you, sudden sinkholes.<br>
All roads lead to <nobr>. . .</nobr> oops.<br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Here is Alan's poem for today. His title, like mine, combines Thorson's "The ____ of ____" phrasing with the anopodoton. Which, it occurs to me, I have no idea how to say out loud.<br />
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<blockquote><b> The Housecat of the Lord Works in Mysterious Ways </b><br />
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The housecat of God’s will comes<br>
between you and your laptop screen,<br>
rubs its chin against the flapping dustcover<br>
enough to wake you, chews leaves<br>
of remaining houseplants and old books,<br>
butts its head against your wrist<br>
and bites your hand. It is ordinary<br>
in its schedule, insistent upon feeding,<br>
demanding of lap time. And, yet,<br>
were there a mouse, it would sit;<br>
were there a fire, it would curl<br>
in a far window, watching the vine<br>
of ivy lasso in the wind,<br>
only to scoot and run as you<br>
attempted to take it outside<br>
to your mutual safety. Its purr<br>
assures only its momentary<br>
ambivalence, seemingly mindful,<br>
a moving red dot will focus<br>
its attention; calling its name<br>
to find it makes no difference.<br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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LABELS maureen thorson, napowrimo, national poetry month, poem-a-day challenge, robert lee brewer, thomas alan holmes
LINKS http://www.napowrimo.net/ https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-1
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-23086187591172378942023-04-26T23:17:00.000-05:002023-04-26T23:17:00.444-05:00Day 26 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-six-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “write a portrait poem that focuses on or plays with the meaning of the subject’s name. This could be a self-portrait, a portrait of a family member or close friend, or even a portrait of a famous or historical person.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-26" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “write a response poem. The poem could respond to one of your poems from earlier this month (or ever). Or it could respond to a poem by another poet, whether it's Emily Dickinson or Ocean Vuong.”<br />
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Today's curtal sonnet arises from both prompts. For Thorson's name/portrait assignment, I'm going with Emily Dickinson again, partly because Brewer mentioned her today. To fulfill Brewer's response assignment, I am responding to Dickinson's poem "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How_many_times_these_low_feet_staggered_—" target="_blank">How many times these low feet staggered</a>" (238).<br>
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a response to Dickinson’s “How many <br>
times these low feet staggered” (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How_many_times_these_low_feet_staggered_—" target="_blank">238</a>) <br>
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<nobr>Emily Dickinson’s given name means <br>
<i>rival, laborious, eager</i>. Would these <br>
be the qualities you connect with her? <br>
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She: “Indolent Housewife — in Daisies — lain.” <br>
Emily labored hard on poems, no ease <br>
there, “Vesuvius at home.” Calm fervor. <br>
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She did not do housework. “[A]damantine <br>
fingers / Never a thimble — more — shall wear.” <br>
And “the cobweb swings from the ceiling.” Swish <br>
a broom? Not she. Poets do not need a clean <br>
house. Just words on fire. </nobr><br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
I am grateful to the article "<a href="https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-dickinson/biography/special-topics/domestic-labor-in-the-dickinson-family-households/" target="_blank">Domestic Labor in the Dickinson Family Households</a>" from the Emily Dickinson Museum for information about Dickinson and housework, especially with regard to her poem "How many times these low feet staggered" (238). Also, the phrase "Vesuvius at home" comes from Dickinson's poem "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Volcanoes_be_in_Sicily" target="_blank">Volcanoes be in Sicily</a>" (1691). <br />
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Alan's contribution today is a prose poem. He told me, "Pat Cronin was a member of the East Tennessee State University faculty until recently. During the early days of the pandemic, I encountered him and his wife at a local supermarket, at a time before anyone of us common folks had any real idea of how we should conduct ourselves in public, how often we needed to clean everything, and, sometimes, how to be cheerful. So this poem is based on that experience."<br>
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<blockquote><b> A Kroger in Johnson City </b><br />
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What thoughts I have of you tonight, Pat Cronin, for I walked over the sidewalks under dogwoods and black oaks, listening to the mockingbirds on campus, <br>
Exhausted from another long day now three years into the pandemic now termed an endemic yet forcing additional cautions nonetheless, <br>
Relieved to be among the company of others nevertheless, although sometimes feeling jarred by the renewed acquaintances in their new appearances. Some of my younger friends have grayed, others have lost their youthful step, some have mourned to creases. <br>
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I saw you early in the pandemic, Pat, at a Kroger, and we recognized each other despite our masks, my hair gray and woolier than it had ever been, since I kept it trimmed up until the pandemic forced me home after I stopped patronizing the barber who grew more racist as the Trump administration continued and I decided I owed it to someone to let it grow, <br>
And there you were, bright-eyed and cheered to be among folks although we still in our ignorance of the coronavirus kept our arms-length distance from each other, reluctant to touch even the packaging on the ground meat for what its surface might harbor. <br>
Entering the supermarket, I had heard your voice pitched to reach even the SRO members of the audience, ringing from the meat case to the produce on one side of the supermarket, the dairy case on the other, lifting above the shelves of breakfast foods and canned vegetables. <br>
Would we have hugged were we not afraid that doing so might lead the other to a premature death? I believe so. <br>
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Where were we standing, Pat Cronin? Your spouse ducked away as we talked, maybe to purchase ordinary items. What did we talk about? <br>
(I wonder if she calls you “Patrick” sometimes, because I just can’t.) <br>
I know we spared ourselves the talk of work for a bit, you being so close to retirement, and I being underwater with the sudden demands that all classes shift to online delivery in spite of the unequal access to the internet because the GOP congressmen during the Obama administration struck down the proposal to make the internet a utility like water and electricity. <br>
I know we talked about health and our eagerness for a vaccine to be discovered and for the hasty end of the Trump administration. <br>
I remember, you old iconoclast, that like me you sometimes express affection in reverse by condemning those who punch down, and so many punch down and enlist too many of our thoughtless neighbors in their ranks, and I will never have your stage presence or your film credits or your ability to draw an audience, but I can tell folks that while many people radiate their personal hell around them, you sop yours up like an unlucky spill, as I hope to do, too.
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Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-60984459119120561322023-04-25T19:12:00.005-05:002023-06-02T00:40:14.241-05:00Day 25 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-25" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> suggestion: “For today's prompt, we have our fourth (and final) two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts, and they are: <nobr>1) Write a dream poem, and/or . . . 2) Write a reality poem.</nobr> You get to decide how to blur these (poetic) lines.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> suggestion: “Today’s prompt challenges you to <nobr>. . .</nobr> 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.”<br />
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Okay, here we go. A curtal sonnet working with all three prompts: love poem, dream poem, reality poem. <br>
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<blockquote><b> Ocean Fantasia </b><br />
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<i>for Sandy</i><br>
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Sunlight shines through sea water in bright blue <br>
tones, shifting, slipping. Orange and yellow <br>
blooms are dazzling anemones. Fish stream <br>
through this translucence like sleek dancers. You <br>
are there, a beautiful mermaid glow <br>
right next to me. We effortlessly swim <br>
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like svelte, graceful seals. (But how can this be? <br>
We are not good swimmers.) Then sweet and slow<br>
I wake up. Soft sheets, not water. A dream. <br>
Your skin is smooth, warm <nobr>. . .</nobr> this reality <br>
as lovely as any dream. <br>
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Alan also did all the prompts today.<br />
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<blockquote><b> More and Earlier than You Think </b><br />
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More and earlier than you think<br>
you sleep even in the time<br>
you think you only doze. I hear<br>
your soft snoring before I drift<br>
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off while remembering the pledge<br>
we made each other years<br>
ago that each of us could when<br>
the other was asleep fiddle<br>
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around a bit as long as the fiddler<br>
did not awake the fiddlee,<br>
delight of the mischief stemming<br>
from the thought budding<br>
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in our imaginations like violets<br>
(because affection is innocent,<br>
unlike the rose, whose stem is thorny<br>
and likely to draw blood if clasped).<br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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LABELS maureen thorson, napowrimo, national poetry month, poem-a-day challenge, robert lee brewer, thomas alan holmes
LINKS http://www.napowrimo.net/ https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-1
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-37586586619505897242023-04-24T20:24:00.004-05:002023-04-25T09:57:42.494-05:00Day 24 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> suggestion: “Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed. For example, your mother-in-law, the moon, or the year you were ten years old.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-24" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> suggestion: “For today's prompt, write a touch poem. For the senses, I'm thinking of touch as a hand reaching out, though it could also be a foot or just bodies pushed close like in a concert or public transportation. But that's just when thinking about the senses. <nobr>. . .</nobr> I'll also accept other interpretations of touch, like someone who has the winning touch in a game or has a special touch in dealing with people.”<br />
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Here's a picture of what I got for dinner at a BBQ restaurant tonight. Always on the lookout for a potential poem, I thought, what if my dinner could talk? Here's a blank verse ditty, again both prompts. Apologies to my vegetarian friends. <br>
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<blockquote><b> My Dinner Speaks </b><br />
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Beef brisket chunks on a bed of salad greens, <br>
that’s me. We dinners never get to say <br>
what we think of the diners we feed each night. <br>
This is my review of you wielders <br>
of knife and fork. First, this old guy, ombre <br>
with black hair, gray mustache, and white beard: <br>
too finicky, too focused on not getting dirty, <br>
dabbing his lips too often with his napkin. <br>
Second, the four people, two couples <br>
at the next table. Probably two generations: <br>
elderly mom and dad, son and his wife. <br>
Young guy just talks too much, blah blah blah. <br>
Not eating at all and the other three are just <br>
picking at their food. What fun is that? <br>
Third, a younger mom and dad with a kid, <br>
probably two years old, in a high chair. <br>
They’re eating with gusto, hard and fast with lots <br>
of enjoyment by all three. Especially the man, <br>
whose face is covered by tattoos, obviously <br>
someone who takes on the world with verve and panache. <br>
He’s the winner. He’s the one with the touch. <br>
If it was up to me, I’d touch their lives <br>
with huge luck. Maybe a lottery jackpot <br>
with a million-dollar payoff. Enough to keep <br>
them in brisket and ribs and steak for the rest of their lives. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Alan's poem is tangentially about food (if that's the right term). He says it could be "R-rated" <nobr>. . .</nobr> consider yourself suitably (and gently) warned.<br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
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<blockquote><b> Re: Your E-mail Dated 4/24/2023 </b><br />
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<i>“Is the vegan creamer in the frig mine?”</i> <br>
<br>
The most surprising entry <br>
in the semester’s end crush of e-mails <br>
comes from a colleague <br>
whose deliciously ambiguous query, <br>
under the subject line <br>
“one of life’s many questions” <br>
asks, “Is the vegan creamer in the frig mine?” <br>
Indeed, the query itself invites many questions. <br>
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1. At what point has the word “frig” become a clipped term for “refrigerator”? <br>
2. Has the querist ever known the street meaning of “frig,” which practically <br>
every schoolchild of my generation knew? <br>
3. While the querist intends “mine” to indicate possession, as if there are so <br>
many of our colleagues who purchase vegan creamer that such confusion <br>
of ownership prompts the question, can some of us with a more sensual <br>
turn also consider the fortuitous juxtaposition of “frig mine”? <br>
4. Having considered that pairing, can we reread “creamer” without a <br>
swallowed chortle? <br>
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In sum, I consider this missive <br>
the finest of all this year’s messages, <br>
the funniest version of the saddest <br>
three-word question ever uttered, <br>
and even I have referred to it <br>
as “the most surprising entry.” <br>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-23" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “write a fear poem. The poem could be about a fear you have or a fear of someone else. Maybe you feel the fear; maybe you cause someone else to have the fear. And there are different levels of fears, like the fear of missing out on the last piece of piece or the fear of dying.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-three-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “try to write a poem of your own that has multiple numbered sections. Attempt to have each section be in dialogue with the others, like a song where a different person sings each verse, giving a different point of view. Set the poem in a specific place that you used to spend a lot of time in, but don’t spend time in anymore.”<br />
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I haven't written any hay(na)ku yet this month, so here's a rhymed reverse hay(na)ku sonnet in numbered sections. Both prompts again. <br>
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<blockquote><b> FOMO </b><br />
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1 <br>
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Worried I missed<br>
a delayed <br>
announcement. <br>
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2 <br>
<br>
Afraid my friends<br>
went somewhere<br>
grand. <br>
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3 <br>
<br>
Right now something <br>
unbelievable is <br>
happening. <br>
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4 <br>
<br>
UFO landing while <br>
I’m not <br>
looking. <br>
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5 <br>
<br>
Blink your eyes <br>
and you'll miss <nobr>. . .</nobr> <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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In case you're not familiar with the hay(na)ku, it's a poetic form that was invented by the poet Eileen Tabios in 2003. The basic form is a three-line stanza (a tercet) in which line 1 is one word, line 2 is two words, and line 3 is two words. I happen to have given the form its name (a pun on the Filipino expression "ay naku," a rough translation of which might be "oh my gosh"). In 2012, I invented the hay(na)ku sonnet, which is made up of 5 hay(na)ku stanzas, where the last one is condensed to two lines of three words (in order to get 14 lines overall, the typical sonnet length). The poet Bruce Niedt in 2020 devised a rhyming pattern for the hay(na)ku sonnet, echoing the last word in the first two stanzas, and then the last word in the next two stanzas, and finally the two ending words in the closing couplet's lines. In my poem above, I am using reverse hay(na)ku: 3-2-1 words. <br>
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Alan also worked with both prompts today. He said about this poem, "Mainly to the tune of different songs from <i>Sgt Pepper</i>." See if you can figure out what songs. Have fun singing!<br />
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<blockquote><b> Fear of Father </b><br />
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1. <br>
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One day when they see that name they’ll think of me, <br>
His legacy is a joke to them now. <br>
Only I can save our name and our image. <br>
I can imagine just how <br>
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Riding a yacht that’s the size of New Hampshire, <br>
Snorting a pile of cocaine, <br>
Seat leaning back and my sandaled feet crossed on my desk: <br>
<br>
Junior flies when senior’s diving <br>
Junior flies when senior’s diving <br>
Junior flies when senior’s diving <br>
Ah! <br>
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2. <br>
<br>
Saturday night they have me eating my tie again— <br>
Like a five-year-old with uncertainty, <br>
They make their jokes about me <br>
<br>
I’m (he’s getting short-shrift again) <br>
am really (he’s following smart drift again) <br>
smart (he’s understanding his role in his life). <br>
He’s really smart <br>
and he’s playing the part <br>
of a faithful son. <br>
He’s really smart, all right. <br>
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3. <br>
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I’m the one who’ll stay on top. <br>
I have the self-awareness, <br>
and I could not care less what people say. <br>
My husband deals with royal assassins, <br>
but real estate is his real passion— <br>
no one knows that better than little ol’ me. <br>
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I’m my father’s public favorite <br>
but I have no way to savor it <br>
as long as he can lay his little finger on me. <br>
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I’m the one who’ll stay on top, <br>
the only brains in this outfit <br>
unless a reporter comes to outwit me. <br>
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I’m the one who’ll stay on top— <br>
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4. <br>
<br>
When I get older, move out or here, <br>
leave my mom behind, <br>
Mar-a-lago will fade from my memory. <br>
That is perfectly fine with me! <br>
I’ll go to college, <br>
I’ll find a girl, <br>
I’ll get a perfect score— <br>
I’ll live my name down, <br>
earn my own renown, <br>
when I’m out this door. <br>
<br>
I’ll go to law school, get a J.D. <br>
then I’ll join a firm <br>
slap a bunch of lawsuits down to win my case, <br>
make those plaintiffs suffer and squirm, <br>
run for the Senate, <br>
be the nominee <br>
for 2044— <br>
will his domination <br>
wreck my nomination <br>
when I’m out this door? <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “Find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you’ve never previously read – and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take out some words. Make your own poem out of it!”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-22" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “take the phrase ‘What (blank),’ replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: ‘What Are You Doing Here,’ 'What a Great Time,’ ‘Whatever You Say,' and/or ‘What Kind of Poem Are You Going to Write?’”<br />
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The Dickinson poem I'm altering is "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44087/wild-nights-wild-nights-269" target="_blank">Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)</a>." Again, both prompts, slapstick. <br />
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<blockquote><b> What Greens? </b><br />
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Wild lettuce, wild spinach! <br />
If there are no croutons <br />
Our wild salad could use <br />
Fritos or Funyuns! <br />
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Where are the forks? <br />
All in the dishwasher? <br />
Done with silverware, <br />
Full disclosure! <br />
<br />
Let’s use our hands, <br />
Damn the blue cheese! <br />
A loaf of bread, a jug <br />
Of wine, and fingers — jeez! <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
The Dickinson poem Alan is working with is <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52136/come-slowly-eden-205" target="_blank">Come slowly - Eden! (205)</a>. About his poem today, Alan says “Dickinson's ‘Come slowly — Eden!’ mistakenly refers to the worker bee as a male. This poem addresses that error.”<br />
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<blockquote><b> What Did Dickinson Know? </b><br />
<br />
Misgendering <br>
the worker bee <br>
in verses kept <br>
in privacy, <br>
<br>
or sublimating <br>
private hour <br>
thoughts of nectars <br>
from full flower? <br>
<br />
<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Here's a little caricature of how I imagine Emily Dickinson might look if she could read our alterations of her poems. This is based rather loosely on the only authenticated <a href="https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/holdings/edickinson/dickinsondag" target="_blank">photograph</a> of her. <br /><br>
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Wikipedia has a list of all Emily Dickinson's poems, almost 1800 of them: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emily_Dickinson_poems" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emily_Dickinson_poems</a> Have fun checking them out!<br>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-39431448438751989592023-04-21T21:49:00.009-05:002023-04-21T22:07:49.609-05:00Day 21 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><nobr>Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-21" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: </nobr></td><td><nobr>Write a poem using at least three of the following six words:</nobr><br />
<nobr>1. Bow 2. Lean 3. Park 4. Saw 5. Tear 6. Wound</nobr></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><nobr>Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-one-8/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: </nobr></td><td> <nobr>Choose an abstract noun from the list below, and then use <br />that as the title for a poem that contains very short lines, <br />and at least one invented word. </nobr><br /><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top" width="100"></td></tr><tr><td>Glory <br />Courage <br />Anxiety <br />Failure <br />Defeat</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="100">Delight <br />Confusion <br />Calm <br /> Belief <br />Cleverness</td><td align="left" valign="top" width="100">Despair <br />Honesty <br />Deceit <br />Strength</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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I've been struggling with writer's block all day. Here's my best shot, both prompts, all six words.<br />
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<blockquote><b> Despair </b><br />
<br />
So just park <br />
your flat butt <br />
in front of <br />
the damn keys. <br />
Lean forward <br />
hard inside <br />
the screen <br />
then bend <br />
backward <br />
like a bow <br />
inside out. <br />
Rip the saw <br />
till your spine <br />
leaks some <br />
glimmerlight <br />
out of your <br />
brain. Tear <br />
the wound <br />
open. Type. <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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Here's Alan's poem today, with two invented words.<br />
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<blockquote><b> “Everhow” </b><br />
<br />
When talk wound down by night, <br />
she would say “flustrated,” <br />
unconscious portmanteau. <br />
I know I heard her say <br />
“everhow,” which I know <br />
means we will find a way. <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Anyone in Alan's neighborh00d: he will be reading at the Watauga Country Library tomorrow as part of an Earth Day celebration, 3-5pm. Here are links to event descriptions on <a href="https://fb.me/e/3ENu8d0Yw" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and on the library's <a href="https://www.arlibrary.org/calendar/g-3-12dcmbod43adv1jf6ratisaf25_202304221900" target="_blank">website</a>. Break a leg, Alan! <br />
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><nobr>NaPoWriMo / PAD 2023 • Pick a day: <br />
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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LINKS http://www.napowrimo.net/ https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-1
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-30349300073195668152023-04-20T21:07:00.006-05:002023-04-21T11:47:28.355-05:00Day 20 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-10/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> suggestion: “And now for our (optional) prompt, once more taken from our archives! Have you ever heard someone wonder what future archaeologists, whether human or from alien civilization, will make of us? Today, I’d like to challenge you to answer that question in poetic form, exploring a particular object or place from the point of view of some far-off, future scientist? The object or site of study could be anything from a 'World’s Best Grandpa' coffee mug to a Pizza Hut, from a Pokemon poster to a cellphone.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-20" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “For today's prompt, write an animal poem. If you want, make the title of your poem an animal and write your poem. Or perhaps, you could give an animal a cameo somewhere in your poem. Another option is to write a persona poem from the perspective of animal. And I'm sure there are many other options available.”<br />
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Alan's poem today has an interesting take on the future archaeologist theme. Also, can you find the animal?<br />
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<blockquote><b> Excavating My Old Room </b><br />
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I have no time to imagine how <br>
it might happen that my boyhood <br>
bedroom back in Alabama, <br>
its windows facing south, <br>
would somehow remain intact <br>
like a pharoah’s tomb <br>
so a future dig would unearth <br>
a wooden cigar box <br>
that in second grade <br>
I lined with green felt <br>
because my teacher knew that all <br>
students would want a box <br>
to keep small treasures in. <br>
She went to the King Edward <br>
Cigar plant, close to the King Pharr <br>
Canning Company, and got enough <br>
wooden boxes, each secured shut <br>
by a moving iron band, <br>
so our class could all have <br>
a place to keep our small things. <br>
Should they find that box, I am not <br>
sure if any trading cards will still be <br>
in it, odd ones from different series, <br>
the rubber band likely dissolved <br>
ages ago. I think a wallet-sized portrait <br>
of Christana Ellison will be in it, <br>
her translucent blue eyeglass frames <br>
the same color as her picture day dress. <br>
There may be an I.D. bracelet, <br>
and maybe a small plastic set of Snow White <br>
and the Seven Dwarfs I got by mail order <br>
for fifty cents and some proofs of purchase <br>
of Royal Pudding, the paint chipping off <br>
even when they arrived. And there should be <br>
a set of painted wooden penguins <br>
that nest inside each other like Russian dolls, <br>
the kinds of things children keep <br>
before people make them embarrassed <br>
for having them and then later keep secret. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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Okay, for my poem <nobr>. . .</nobr> time for a little slapstick. Merging both prompts as usual.<br>
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<blockquote><b> T.Rex, Says the Future Archaeologist </b><br />
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So, I’m inspecting a video image from <br />
a thousand years ago, from old North Am: <br />
a T.Rex wearing a bright red and blue suit <br />
looking like, if I’m right, old Spider-Man. <br />
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Such huge unreal dinosaurs were Gods. <br />
The inhabitants of North Am worshipped <br />
at their feet. And this particular T.Rex <br />
could shoot sticky unbreakable webs <br />
<br />
from his wrists, from those tiny forearms, <br />
and swing freely from building to building, <br />
brachiating like an emperor chimpanzee. <br />
Spider-T.Rex: epitome of spirit and grace. <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-19" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “We've already written poems related to smell and to sound, so let's keep the senses fresh with another sensory poem. For today's prompt, write a taste poem. ”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-nineteen-8/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “One common feature of childhood is the monsters. The ones under the bed or in the closet; the odd local monsters that other kids swear roam the creek at night, or that parents say wait to steal away naughty children that don’t go to bed on time. Now, cast your mind back to your own childhood and write a poem about something that scared you – or was used to scare you – and which still haunts you (if only a little bit) today.”<br />
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Today, I'm writing an aswang poem. The aswang is a mythical Philippine monster that comes in many forms: shapeshifter, ghoul, vampire, and others. In this poem, I bring you a manananggal, a woman who splits herself at the waist, with the top half growing wings and flying into the night to hunt. Both prompts again, though my parents never told me stories about aswang, unlike other Filipino parents. I discovered the aswang through reading. "Taste" is incorporated into the poem both through a mention as well as through form.<br>
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<blockquote><b> Horror Story </b><br />
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The manananngal lifted into the <br>
Air, her leathery wings <br>
Shimmering against the stars <br>
Twinkling in the heavens. <br>
Every light in the dark town <br>
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Twinkled as well, constellations <br>
Above and below. She hovered <br>
Softly outside an open window, <br>
The pregnant woman breathing <br>
Evenly in her bed, unaware. <br>
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The monster slipped her tongue, <br>
All ten feet of it, into the window <br>
Snaking slowly. She could almost <br>
Taste the woman’s amniotic fluid, <br>
Ever so sweet and pungent. <br>
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Then, a few minutes later, the <br>
Aswang flew silently away, <br>
Sated, satisfied, full of new life. <br>
The next morning, a miscarriage, <br>
Everyone would call it, so sad. <br>
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The aswang then turned back into <br>
An ordinary woman, living her <br>
Safe, uneventful life in plain sight: a <br>
Tame girl hardly anyone noticed. But <br>
Every night she was a fierce hunter. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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I don't know if you noticed that each stanza above is an acrostic, where the first letters in the five lines spell out "taste." I have just finished a novel-in-poems about an aswang couple, where the woman is a manananngal like the monster in this poem, and the man is a weredog. Many of the poems in the book have appeared in the blog over the last few Aprils. Wish me luck: the book is out, looking for a publisher.<br />
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Alan's poem today is equally scary! But in a different way. <span style="color: rgb(164,0,51);"> <nobr>:-D</nobr> </span><br><br>
<blockquote><b> Medicine </b><br />
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When we were barefoot summers long, <br>
our mother got prescriptions just <br>
for prophylactic use—we took <br>
“worm medicine” for months. Its taste <br>
was artificial cherry—red <br>
as plastic, awful stuff—I’d drink <br>
glasses of water just to wash <br>
it down. Our mother’s love could force <br>
us kids to face our fears once she <br>
could corner us inside the house. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-26519354729072775892023-04-18T17:27:00.001-05:002023-04-18T17:27:03.166-05:00Day 18 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> 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. ”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-18" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> suggestion: “For today's prompt, we have our third two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts, and they are: <nobr>1) Write a love poem, and/or . . . 2) Write an anti-love poem.</nobr> As longtime participants know, this is my favorite prompt, which is why it returns every challenge.”<br />
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Merging all three prompts again: the single NaPoWriMo and the double PAD. So, an abecedarian that is about both love and anti-love.<br>
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<blockquote><b> Springtime </b><br />
<br />
Almost everyone — <br>
boys, girls, women, men, all genders, <br>
cats, <br>
dogs, <br>
even goldfish (no, not <br>
fish) — almost everyone loves spring! <br>
Great days now and on the <br>
horizon, mellow sun, pleasant nights. <br>
I too love spring. Well, <br>
just a bit. Some part of me <br>
knows that spring is also something not to <br>
love. Spring is when <br>
marigolds, ragweed, chrysenthamums, <br>
nettles, sunflowers, daisies, various <br>
ornamental grasses, baby’s breath, what-have-you <br>
produce pollen, that <br>
quick danger for us <br>
resistless, defenseless hay fever <br>
sufferers. <br>
Two kinds of spring: <br>
unbelievable beauty of nature coming back to life, and <br>
vile assassin making our lives unbearable again, the <br>
worst time of year. We can only <br>
X out these spring days. <br>
You lovers of spring can have it. The rest of us will <br>
zing all the way through to the first snowfall. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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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!<br />
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<blockquote><b> Counterintuitive </b><br />
<br />
Ziploc <br>
your <br>
Xanax <br>
where <br>
vapid, <br>
unengaged <br>
teachers <br>
synthesize <br>
requisite <br>
quizzes. <br>
Put <br>
off <br>
nurturing <br>
morons. <br>
Let <br>
kids <br>
joke <br>
in <br>
here. <br>
Get <br>
friendly. <br>
Every <br>
damned <br>
chance, <br>
be <br>
affectionate. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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Ingat, everyone. <b> <span style="color: #a40033;">ヅ</span> </b></td></tr>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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LINKS http://www.napowrimo.net/ https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-1
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EVEN DAYS - Thorson / Brewer
EMOTICONS smile ヅ | big smile シ | not amused ツ | retarded ッ |
wink+smile <span style="color: rgb(164,0,51);"> <nobr>;-)</nobr> </span> | <br />
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-49830383456392315102023-04-17T22:23:00.003-05:002023-04-17T22:24:19.970-05:00Day 17 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-17" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “For today's prompt, write a nerve poem. Some folks are nervous; others have some nerve; still others seem to get on everyone's nerves. We all have a nervous system, and well, my nerves aren't wracked worrying that everyone will figure some way to poem out of this prompt.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “write a poem that contains the name of a specific variety of edible plant – preferably one that grows in your area. <nobr>. . .</nobr> In the poem, try to make a specific comparison between some aspect of the plant’s lifespan and your own – or the life of someone close to you. Also, include at least one repeating phrase.”<br />
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Okay, curtal sonnet, both prompts, but no repeating phrase. Enjoy!<br />
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<blockquote><b> The Dandelion Wars </b><br />
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Dandelions dot my lawn, mosaic <br>
of bright yellow blooms swaying in the breeze <br>
threatening explosions of windborne seeds. <br>
<br>
What nerve those dandelions have, to take <br>
over my green expanse, promise to seize <br>
even more land. What to do? Eat the weeds! <br>
<br>
Harvest dandelion roots, leaves, flowers. <br>
The whole plant, except the milky stems, is <br>
edible. The leaves can spice your salads. <br>
Make tea with the roots. Vile thieves, your hour <br>
is here. Vengeance indeed! <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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And here is Alan's take on the two prompts. Nice use of repeating phrases!<br />
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<blockquote><b> Sweet Potato Villanelle </b><br />
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A nerve aligned between the moon and sweet <br>
night air (a waning moon), the waiting slight <br>
potato slip, plowed earth beneath your feet, <br>
<br>
the last of late spring’s hard-edged frosts complete, <br>
plow in the day and wait to plant at night. <br>
A nerve aligned between the moon and sweet <br>
<br>
potato slip—an impulse—forces meet <br>
and splice, the furrowed earth and just the right <br>
potato slip. Plowed earth beneath one’s feet— <br>
<br>
too early yet to go unshod, some sleet <br>
fell just two weeks ago—can set aright <br>
a nerve aligned between the moon and sweet <br>
<br>
turned earth, the season’s rhythm, and the beat <br>
of one’s involuntary heart. Delight, <br>
potato slip, plowed earth beneath one’s feet, <br>
<br>
the waning moon, the body souled, complete <br>
as cycled harmony, impulsive light, <br>
a nerve aligned between the moon and sweet <br>
potato slip, plowed earth beneath one’s feet. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Ooo <nobr>. . .</nobr> gotta love a good villanelle. Tasty!
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Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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Ingat, everyone. <b> <span style="color: #a40033;">ヅ</span> </b></td></tr>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-27304165968046045322023-04-16T16:24:00.007-05:002023-04-16T20:22:26.475-05:00Day 16 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-10/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt is “once again pulled from our archives. Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like. For example, if you chose a whale as the topic of your poem, you might have lines like ‘It does not settle down in trees at night, cooing/Nor will it fit in your hand.’”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-16" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “take the phrase ‘The (blank) of a (blank),’ replace the blanks with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: ‘The Beginning of a Story,’ ‘The Wrong Side of a Situation,’ ‘The Apple of an Eye,’ and/or ‘The Latest Excuses of a Continuing Problem.’”<br />
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This morning was strange <nobr>. . .</nobr> it snowed here off and on a bit even though we're several weeks into spring and the air temperature was not quite freezing. Not a curtal sonnet today! Some free verse instead, with lines of similar length. Both prompts as usual.<br>
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<blockquote><b> The Return of Winter? </b><br />
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Today was not the vernal equinox, but a month after! <br>
Today was not a week since I put up the snow shovel. <br>
Today was not temps below freezing, although close. <br>
Today was not a snowy day, though it did snow some! <br>
Today was not a slippery ice day, but I did slip once. <br>
Today was not winter but felt like it, seemed almost. <br>
Today was not usual April weather, but then it’s Iowa. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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Alan also worked with both prompts today. About the poem he told me "Lacon is a real place near where I grew up."<br />
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<blockquote><b> The Mispronunciation of “Lacon” </b><br />
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<nobr>The cashiers at the Love fueling station just off Exit 322 on Interstate 65, the <br>
Falkville, Alabama, exit, will be able to tell you are not a local if you say it <br>
the way it looks. <br>
It does not rhyme with “Macon.” It does not rhyme with “bacon.” <br>
The first part sounds as if you are getting the lay of the land, <br>
but the second part sounds as if you are a dupe to its con. <br>
And those two parts are equal, what a literature professor would call a “spondee,” <br>
the way most folks would say “Walmart,” <br>
but the Laconians would say “the Walmart,” <br>
because they are Laconians, <br>
as my linguistics professor back at Alabama taught me, <br>
having published a definitive guide to Alabama place names <br>
the year before I left Tuscaloosa. <br>
Professor Virginia O. Foscue—I haven’t thought of her in years—gracious, kind, <br>
patient with my rough edges—my wife and I still have the set of sterling <br>
salt shakers she gave us for a wedding present— <br>
she determined that one of the Lacon founders named the small site after <br>
his hometown in Illinois, <br>
which was, in its turn, named after the region on the Peloponnesian Peninsula <br>
once controlled by the terse, pithy Spartans, <br>
who would not recognize how this ghost town has named itself for generations, <br>
as laconic as they may be. <br></nobr>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-34949395399381624482023-04-15T17:56:00.003-05:002023-04-15T23:53:41.686-05:00Day 15 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-15" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “write a shadow poem. Some people are afraid of shadows (even their own), but others like to lurk there. There are shadow governments, shadowy characters, and well, just shade.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “think of a person – real or imagined – who has been held out to you as an example of how to <nobr>. . .</nobr> live, but who you have always had doubts about. Write a poem that exaggerates the supposedly admirable qualities of the person in a way that exposes your doubts.”<br />
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Wrote from both prompts again, but not necessarily the way the prompts suggested. I hope you enjoy this little ditty — a curtal sonnet again!<br>
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<blockquote><b> Who Sees Himself as a Paragon? </b><br />
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Hmm. Should I write about the Orange One? <br>
<i>(Don’t say his name — he loves that.)</i> DeSantis, <br>
maybe? He’s trying to trump you-know-who <br>
but is just a pale shadow of the clown. <br>
He quipped about college Zombie Studies — <br>
code for diversity programs, a new <br>
way to diss CRT. I feel bad for <br>
Florida and friends who live there. Disney <br>
is the rampart, throwing shade at Ron! You <br>
know he’s bucking for Prez. Heaven forbid. <br>
No paragon, it’s true! <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
A little bit of fun experimentation in rhyme here. For the <i>“-is”</i> rhyme (De Santis, Studies), I thought it was fun to use "Disney," not just because the <i>“-is”</i> sound comes at the beginning of the word rather than the end but because of their feud. I also rhymed "bad for" with "forbid"! That was a happy accident.<br />
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Not the justices who tend to engage in oral arguments with litigants, but the other one. <br>
Not the justices who were not nominated by a former director of the Central Intelligence <br>
Agency, but the other one. <br>
Not the justices who did not work for Monsanto, but the other one. <br>
Not the justices whose spouses are not suspected of participating in the January 6 insurrection, <br>
but the other one. <br>
Not the justices who accept lavish vacations and other amenities from billionaires, but one of <br>
the other ones. <br></nobr>
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One of those who will decide who can marry and where. <br>
One of those who will decide who can carry and where. <br>
One of those who will decide who must carry and where. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-3258644245044080722023-04-14T21:55:00.007-05:002023-04-14T22:23:33.916-05:00Day 14 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-10/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “write a parody or satire based on a famous poem. It can be long or short, rhymed or not. But take a favorite (or unfavorite) poem of the past, and see if you can’t re-write it on humorous, mocking, or sharp-witted lines. You can use your poem to make fun of the original (in the vein of a parody), or turn the form and manner of the original into a vehicle for making points about something else.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-14" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “write an 'And Now for Something Completely Different' poem. This prompt is inspired by the Monty Python skits that would suddenly shift gears, but your poem doesn't have to be humorous. It should aspire to be somehow different than what you've written so far this month. ”<br />
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My poem today is a parody, though not of a famous poem as the prompt asks but rather of my own foibles as a poet. The "something totally different" vibe begins with the title, which is in lower case; I always capitalize my titles. <br />
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<blockquote><b> autoparody </b><br />
<br />
We wore wool. We <br />
Felt full. We <br />
<br />
Those were going to be the opening <br />
lines of a parody of Gwendolyn Brooks today <br />
until the second prompt suggested <br />
“and now for something totally different” <nobr>. . .</nobr> <br />
and I realized I have written mainly in form <br />
this month, so it must be time for free verse. <br />
<br />
That parody was going to make fun <br />
of holidays where we gorge: Thanksgiving, <br />
Christmas, Easter, corned beef and cabbage <br />
on St. Paddy’s, Fourth of July BBQ. Brisket, <br />
beef brisket in a summer picnic basket. <br />
Uh-oh, I almost rhymed there. <br />
Watch out, impending rhyme flare! <br />
<br />
Can I write without decasyllabics? <br />
Can I break out of these rhythmic habits? <br />
<br />
Maybe not haiku? <br />
Or at least not talk in 5- <br />
7-5 sylla— <br />
<br />
And, oh God, heaven forbid the curtal <br />
sonnet, to which the poetry machine <br />
in my brain defaults. In fact, you may have <br />
sensed I’m now four lines into a curtal <br />
sonnet, and the next rhyme has to be “-een” <br />
and the rhyme after that should be “-av” — STOP! <br />
<br />
Whoa, that was six lines of ten syllables each just now. <br />
The only way to stop writing in poetic form right now <br />
is to end this poem. Must stop. Must stop. Oh Wow. <br />
<br>
<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Alan also worked with both prompts today but he indeed parodied a famous poem, [Buffalo Bill's] by E.E. Cummings. Click <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47244/buffalo-bill-s" target="_blank">here</a> if you don't know that poem in order to compare with Alan's send-up. <br>
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<blockquote><b> [Governor Lee’s] </b><br />
<br />
<nobr>Governor Lee’s <br>
fucked up <br>
who used to <br>
tout a secondamendment <br>
gospel <br>
and break the <br>
firstdamnedamendment gaggeditjustlikethat <br>
<br>
Jesus <br>
does not recognize him <br>
and what I want to know is <br>
how do you like NRA cash <br>
Mister Death <nobr><br>
<br>
<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-39562135290050579772023-04-13T18:03:00.001-05:002023-04-13T18:03:11.119-05:00Day 13 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-13" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “[W]rite a forgive poem. The poem could be about forgiveness in general, or it could focus on a specific instance of forgiveness or grace. There are times when we are called upon to forgive others, and times when we ask others to forgive us. And sometimes that includes forgiving ourselves. Be forgiving as you poem today.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirteen-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “[T]ry writing a short poem (or a few, if you’re inspired) that follows the beats of a classic joke. Emphasize the interplay between the form of the poem – such as the line breaks – and the punchline.”<br />
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The only old joke I could think of was Rodney Dangerfield's "take my wife, please" but that's not de rigueur any longer and has nothing to with forgiveness. So I did a a little online searching <nobr>. . .</nobr> and came up with these little groaners. Again merging both prompts.
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<blockquote><b> I Guess I'll Go to the Other Place </b><br />
<br />
They say, <br>
forgive and<br>
forget. <br><br>
But, wait, I'm <br>
a loan officer <nobr>. . .</nobr> <br>
<br />
<br />
<b> Bless Me, Father </b><br />
<br />
for I have sinned. <br>
I ate a dog today. <br>
<br>
I'm sorry, son. <br>
I can't help you. <br>
You will suffer <nobr>. . .</nobr><br>
eternal dalmatian.<br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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Again, Alan also melds the two prompts.<br />
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<blockquote><b> To the Person Who Stole My Mountain Bike off Our <br>Front Porch While My Family Was Eating Lunch Together </b><br />
<br />
I forgive you <br>
everything. <br>
I hope you get <br>
everything <br>
you want, as much <br>
as you want, <br>
as easily <br>
as a tick <br>
feeds and falls off. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-50731958513332141292023-04-12T23:14:00.006-05:002023-04-12T23:20:14.585-05:00Day 12 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twelve-11/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> 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 <nobr>. . .</nobr>').”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-12" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> 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.”<br />
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Today, I'm merging both prompts by addressing my poem from Day 11 and telling an anecdote that has a loud sound in it.<br>
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<blockquote><b> A Note to Yesterday’s Poem </b><br />
<br />
Dear Poem: Yesterday a poet friend <br>
said on his blog that I was writing all <br>
curtal sonnets this month. Not quite, but I <br>
do like them. You’re the exception, prose and <br>
haiku poem. So today, back to curtal <br>
sonnets. Amanda’s third Fourth of July, <br>
she was <i>ready</i> for the fireworks. She strode <br>
away from Mom and Dad, stood apart, tall, <br>
feet planted wide and hard. When the first sky- <br>
rocket launched and exploded, <i>BOOM</i>, she fled <br>
back to us. “So loud! Why?” <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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In today's poem, Alan similarly addresses his own sonnet in the form of a sonnet! A Petrarchan one.
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<blockquote><b> Annoying Sonnet </b><br />
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Constraining me this way may irritate <br>
me somewhere near the middle, where <br>
the ideas have a brand-new focus. There <br>
might be an unintended, sad debate <br>
about a hidden message. It’s too late <br>
to stop you. I know you don’t even care, <br>
because you’re not complete. You’re unaware <br>
of how your comments hurt, but why berate <br>
a newborn thing? Still, you’re not innocent. <br>
You want to make somebody feel. Intent <br>
affects result, and you exasperate <br>
the situation like a malcontent. <br>
My sonnet, damn it, I could never hate <br>
you, since you’re mine, but I’m the worst for wear. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Alan, I think this is a better poem than you think it is. Interesting innovation too by ending the poem not with the expected <i>"-ate"</i> rhyme but rather the <i>"-ere"</i> rhyme from earlier in the sonnet. Brilliant!<br>
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Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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Ingat, everyone. <b> <span style="color: #a40033;">ヅ</span> </b></td></tr>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-11" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> suggestion: “For today's prompt, we have our second two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts, and they are: <nobr>1) Write a form poem, and/or . . . 2) Write an anti-form poem.</nobr> By form, I'm thinking of the various poetic forms, but it's completely fine if you've thought of another interpretation of form.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-11" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> suggestion: “This prompt challenges you to play around with the idea of overheard language. First, take a look at Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56601/one-boy-told-me" target="_blank">One Boy Told Me</a>.” It’s delightfully quirky, and reads as a list, more or less, of things that she’s heard the boy of the title – her son, perhaps? – say. Now, write a poem that takes as its starting point something overheard that made you laugh, or something someone told you once that struck you as funny.”<br />
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<blockquote><b> Amanda </b><br />
<br />
“I love you upside <br>
down in the sky like flowers,”</i> <br>
she said, looking up<br />
<br>
at wispy cirrus clouds. She must have been three at that time, <br>
and Mary Ann and I looked at each other, laughing a little bit <br>
at how precocious our little genius was, a poet in the making. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br>
Working with all three prompts again this Tuesday — two from Brewer and one from Thorson. Brewer's notion of form enters here with a 5-7-5 haiku tied to a small paragraph, three lines but not haiku. A bit like a haibun, I suppose, but really just trying to encompass the "form/anti-form" aspects of the Brewer prompt. Well, not "anti-form" so much as rather just "non-form"? Or maybe "non-<i>poetic</i>-form"? Though of course prose is also a poetic form, so tough <nobr>two-for-Tuesday</nobr> opposition this time.<br>
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Today, Alan told me about his poem, "The two prompts call for something overheard and a form poem. I managed both.<br>
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"Last night, I had the opportunity to hear Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning read at a Knoxville, Tennessee, event, and that reminded me that he created a poetic form he refers to as the 'honky tanka,' a form he describes in his chapter of <i>The Rag-Picker’s Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process</i>, thirty words, six lines, five words per line, and some rhyming if you can manage it.<br>
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"The 'overheard' part of the prompt comes from a direct quote I happened to catch on the news. Fortunately, it’s still on the internet, so I could confirm what I heard."<br>
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<blockquote><b> A Republican Tennessee District Representative Who <br>Voted to Expel Three Democratic Representatives <br>Concedes the Two Expelled Black Representatives <br>May Be Reappointed and Manages Not to Say “Uppity” </b><br />
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“I hope and pray <nobr>. . .</nobr> when <br>
they come back, that they <br>
can work hard, have a <br>
good direction, and show honesty <br>
and integrity, and they will <br>
definitely get respect from me.” <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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Ingat, everyone. <b> <span style="color: #a40033;">ヅ</span> </b></td></tr>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-11/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> suggestion: “Today’s daily prompt (optional, as always) again comes from our archives. <nobr>. . .</nobr> I challenge you to write a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_shanty" target="_blank">sea shanty</a> (or shantey, or chanty, or chantey — there’s a good deal of disagreement regarding the spelling!) Anyway, these are poems in the forms of songs, strongly rhymed and rhythmic, that sailors might sing while hauling on ropes and performing other sea-going labors. <nobr>. . .</nobr> And what should your poem be about? Well, I suppose it could be about anything, although some nautical phrases tossed into the chorus would be good for keeping the sea in your shanty. Haul away, boys, haul away!”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-10" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “For today's prompt, take the phrase 'How (blank),' replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: 'How to Jump Up and Down,' 'How the Murder Mystery Ends,' 'How the Weather Behaves in Georgia,' and/or 'How Much Candy Should I Eat on a Holiday That Has a Lot of Candy to Eat.'”<br />
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Today, I didn't write a sea chantey. Instead I wrote <i>about</i> sea chanteys and their place in oldtime Catholic parochial school curricula. Again, a curtal sonnet. I wasn't sure if I could rhyme with "Agnes"! But I'm pretty happy at how the <i>"-or"</i> rhyme ended up. Enjoy! <br />
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<blockquote><b> How Not to Sing Sea Chanteys </b><br />
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When I was in grade school at St. Agnes <br />
in San Francisco (“grammar school,” though we <br />
seemed to focus less on grammar and more <br />
on penmanship, something they don’t practice <br />
in elementary school these days) we <br />
were taught to sing famous old songs in choir, <br />
<br />
like “Oh Susannah.” But for some reason, <br />
we learned “Blow The Man Down” and other sea <br />
chanteys. Why? No sails or cutlasses or <br />
tricorn hats anywhere. Just schoolchildren <br />
chanting pirate songs. Ahrrr! <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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Alan did write a sea chantey today, accompanied by a Petrarchan sonnet, all in satire about current events in the news. He said, "I understand after a spate of specific, detailed prompts, a playful simple prompt can offer some creative relief, but the news is still distressing." <br />
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<blockquote><b> How to Set Course (a Tennes-sea Chanty) </b><br />
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Open your pockets and lock down your doors <br />
(Yee-haw, my hearties!)— <br />
Lock out minority speech from your floors <br />
(Heave-ho, my buckoes!)— <br />
P. J. O’Rourke once compared us to whores— <br />
(Yee-haw, my hearties!)— <br />
That’s all we know about setting a course— <br />
(Heave-ho, my buckoes!). <br />
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Behind me in the waiting room, I hear <br />
the talking heads from Fox deride the three <br />
who dared to challenge those in Tennessee <br />
who, true to form, consider guns as dear <br />
to life as breath. If some should interfere <br />
with gun proliferation, they should be <br />
ejected from the ruling body, Lee, <br />
the governor, agrees in secrecy, <br />
because, with public silence, his own name <br />
avoids deserved, consenting guns-first blame. <br />
Oh, ship of state, you’d think a Volunteer <br />
would seek the common good, but in this game, <br />
where ruthless players score, a Buccaneer <br />
mentality commands this troubled sea. <br />
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Thank you for your candor, Alan. Unfortunately, another mass shooting today in Louisville. It seems to be a daily event, perhaps more often than daily now, alas.<br>
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Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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Ingat, everyone. <b> <span style="color: #a40033;">ヅ</span> </b></td></tr>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-51248941676992410582023-04-09T19:39:00.009-05:002023-04-14T07:49:32.932-05:00Day Nine ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-nine-9/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “We’re calling today Sonnet Sunday, as we’re challenging you to write in what is probably the most robust poetic form in English. <nobr>. . .</nobr> Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own sonnet.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-9" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: Write “a number poem. You can include a number in the title of the poem, or drop a number somewhere in the middle or end of the poem. Count sheep, poem by numbers, or share 10 ways to write a poem.”<br />
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Today, I'm merging both prompts again. Since I've written curtal sonnets many of the days so far, I thought I'd up the ante today by writing a <i>double</i> curtal sonnet: two curtal sonnets linked together in one poem. I'm using decasyllabics — 10 syllables per line — which can look strange when there are digits. Keep in mind that the decasyllabics are determined by speaking the lines aloud. For example, the third line below "8,493 years" <i>looks</i> very short but there are 10 syllables in it: "eight / thou- / sand / four / hun- / dred / nine- / ty / three / years."
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<blockquote><b> Why Numbers? </b><br />
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There are 93 million miles between <br>
Earth and the Sun. It would take a person <br>
8,493 years <br>
to walk it. An ant would take 21 <br>
million years to walk that far. We humans <br>
can walk over 2000 times faster <br>
than an ant. But ants can carry 50 <br>
times their body weight. Could any human <br>
lift something just 10 times their weight? Never. <br>
Nature’s laws won’t allow it. Gravity <br>
can’t be sidestepped, ever. <br>
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You’d need 1.3 million Earths to fill <br>
the Sun. Using today’s population, <br>
that would be 10 quadrillion 400 <br>
trillion people. How many ants then? Well, <br>
a huge number. Some 20 quadrillion <br>
ants on our Earth alone! If you wondered <br>
that actual ant count, it’s 2 times 10 <br>
to the 22nd. So now someone <br>
might just ask: <i>Who cares? Our days are numbered.</i> <br>
With math, we’re free. The world’s within our ken. <br>
We’re unencumbered. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Here's what Alan said about today's poem: "I think I have fulfilled the obligations of both prompts. I have been thinking about the difference between law, justice, and mercy, the difference between power and the responsibility to wield it, and the notion not only of sacrificing children but the varying ideas of what merits such a sacrifice."<br />
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<blockquote><b> Three </b><br />
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This holiday I’m tasked to think of three <br>
long days of death before the Christ arose <br>
from loving sacrifice of life for those <br>
who’d turn from sin and follow Him. To me, <br>
that promise seemed uncomplicated. He <br>
accepted what his Father wanted, chose <br>
the agony, and even in the throes <br>
of death asked God show mankind clemency. <br>
In Nashville, not so long ago, a school <br>
lost three young kids, three adults, too, but rule <br>
of law let lethal weapons easily <br>
pass through civilian hands; another cruel <br>
procedure let the State of Tennessee <br>
expel two of the three who would oppose. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Alan, I'm so impressed at how you use these writing opportunities to address such important issues of social justice. Bravo! <br>
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Everyone, just a quick observation about Alan's unorthodox technique in this Petrarchan sonnet. In the opening eight lines, he used an <nobr><i>"-ose"</i></nobr> rhyme (the <b>b</b> rhyme) which he brought back at the end (where <nobr><i>"-ee"</i></nobr> was the expected rhyme sound) in order to emphasize the word "oppose." The <nobr><i>"-ee"</i></nobr> rhyme in the last line is made internal, in the word "three" in the middle, which just so happens to be the theme of the poem. Brilliantly done!<br>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-3542008277056663442023-04-08T22:51:00.011-05:002023-04-09T23:29:59.385-05:00Day Eight ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-8" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> suggestion: “For today's prompt, write a homograph poem. Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Sometimes they are pronounced the same, but that's not always the case. <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/homographs-examples-for-writers" target="_blank">Click here to find a list of homographs</a>, though there are many more homographs than these to use.”<br />
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-10/" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt today is based on Jim Simmerman's <a href="https://theartofcompost.com/2014/10/24/exercise-20-little-poetry-projects/" target="_blank">Twenty Little Poetry Projects</a> exercise. This is the 20th year of NaPoWriMo and Maureen is recycling some of the more popular prompts from previous years. This one is an oldie but goodie! The exercise posits twenty mini-prompts all to be used in one poem, for example, "Begin the poem with a metaphor" or "Use a piece of false cause-and-effect logic" or "Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective." Maureen says about the exercise: "It really pushes you to use specific details, and to work on 'conducting' the poem as it grows, instead of trying to force the poem to be one thing or another in particular."<br />
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I wrote a poem using the Simmerman exercise on 5 April 2020 when it was the NaPoWriMo prompt of that day. That poem <a href="https://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2020/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2020.html" target="_blank">The Front Door</a> was quite successful and eventually was published later that same month in the Silver Birch Press <a href="https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/the-front-door-by-vince-gotera-my-front-door-series/">website</a>. This time, I'm just not feeling inspired by the Simmerman exercise as well as the homograph idea, so I'm "going rogue," as Alan says, no working from prompts today. I might try the Simmerman later on.<br />
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<blockquote><b> Easter Fantasy </b><br />
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My dad taught me to read when I was two, <br>
and by age four I had read the entire <br>
Bible, Genesis to Revelation. <br>
I didn’t understand most of it but <br>
I was enchanted by the fantasy vibe. <br>
Probably I didn’t yet know that word <br>
but I knew that a lot of the Bible, <br>
beyond the begats, was out-and-out weird. <br>
I really relished Revelation, called <br>
Apocalypse in my parent’s Bible. <br>
There were those angels with multiple wings <br>
— how did that even work? And whirling wheels <br>
floating in air next to the cherubim; <br>
five years later, I would connect those wheels <br>
with flying saucers. Probably my love <br>
for science fiction arose from this book. <br>
The Four Horsemen were my introduction <br>
to sword-and-sorcery. Ghostly warriors! <br>
Another tale full of strange happenings <br>
was Jesus’ crucifixion. It was weird <br>
enough to have a guy nailed to a cross, <br>
but also darkness at noon, an earthquake? <br>
Then the curtain in the Temple tearing <br>
in half by itself? I knew even then <br>
what the Holy of Holies was, recalled <br>
the Ark of the Covenant, and so on. <br>
Then three days later an angel rolling <br>
a boulder off the guy’s grave — now empty? <br>
Whoa. A whole lot to take in at age four. <br>
I don’t know how this eventually <br>
linked up to faith (probably arising <br>
from education by nuns) but at four <br>
I was definitely hooked. On weird tales, <br>
at least. And so here we are, friends: Easter! <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
Well, that's blank verse — decasyllabics, actually — probably long enough to be a Simmerman 20. In fact, it's possible I may have invoked a couple or three of the Simmerman 20 poetry projects, but if I did, it was purely by accident. <br />
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Here is Alan's poem for today; he tells me, "I devoted a lot of attention to both prompts." The poem addresses the momentous, disturbing news coming out of his state, Tennessee, in the last day or two.<br />
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<blockquote><b> Sheer Thursday, Tennessee 2023 </b><br />
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Self-proclaimed children of God berated youths on a golden path. <br>
A home economics degree can take you anywhere, even to the United States Senate, but, <br>
specifically, within three blocks of my work, hatefulness refracting light like a <br>
new blacktop oozing petroleum by-products, my boss its company. <br>
In these blessed hills crossed with abandoned railroad beds, old-growth forests, and <br>
converted rayon plants and flour mills, <br>
Maybe not accompanied by my boss, but definitely directed by my boss— <br>
I saw the photographic evidence. <br>
While, four hours away, in cluster-fouled-up legislative chambers, the Undead <br>
Confederacy of GOP Supermajority, <br>
Holding themselves righteous preservers of Holy Week’s virtues <br>
Voted to expel two young Black men from their august body, <br>
Sparing by only one vote an older white woman accompanying the two in their call for <br>
gun restrictions <br>
In the wake of a mass shooting only days before, its victims including three children and <br>
a close friend of the governor’s wife, <br>
His devotion to gun rights unshaken, because he remains true to his core principles, <br>
That it is better to wash children’s feet in a religious ceremony than to restrict access to <br>
weapons of war among unregulated death cult members fomented by powerful <br>
political PACs. <br>
He washed children’s feet as an act of Christian selflessness. <br>
He behaves as if he loves. <br>
Old Alabama has seen this act before. He saw it in the sixties, when the grownups took <br>
him to join the crowd drawn to the Little Judge on his campaign stop. He saw it <br>
when the self-proclaimed “not a crook” got off scot-free. He saw it when the <br>
demented actor aligned with the adulterous salamander and the compromised <br>
televangelist. He saw it from the oil-men-in-chief. He saw it from the self- <br>
proclaimed genius innkeeper, all those grand old guys. <br>
The godly patriots who scream at our youths and protect the weapons that kill our <br>
children expelled two young men who said they recognized them. <br>
<i>Tetelestai.</i> <br>
He towels the child’s foot dry without looking at the confused face above him. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br>
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Alan definitely worked with both prompts. For example, the word "boss" here is a homograph, used with a different meaning each time. The poem opens with the first Simmerman poetry project, to begin with a metaphor. Another Simmerman dictum asks for something from another language, and Alan gives us "tetelestai," Greek for "it is finished." The poem ends, as required by the Simmerman exercise, with a visual image that connects to an earlier image sans statement: in this case, the foot-washing. Beautiful work, Alan. <br>
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Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks!<br />
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><nobr>NaPoWriMo / PAD 2023 • Pick a day: <br />
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/national-poetry-month-napowrimo-poem.html">1</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-two-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">2</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-three-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">3</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-four-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">4</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-five-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">5</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-six-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">6</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-seven-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">7</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-eight-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">8</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-nine-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">9</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-ten-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">10</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-11-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">11</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-12-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">12</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-13-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">13</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-14-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">14</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-15-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">15</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-16-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">16</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-17-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">17</a>
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<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-18-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">18</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-19-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">19</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-20-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">20</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-21-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">21</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-22-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">22</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-23-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">23</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-24-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">24</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-25-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">25</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-26-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">26</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-27-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">27</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-28-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">28</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-29-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">29</a>
<a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/2023/04/day-30-napowrimo-poem-day-2023.html">30</a>
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SHORT URL FOR THIS PAGE-->Vince Goterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10873850315003080382noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507971738519746004.post-27138721162149839032023-04-07T20:35:00.002-05:002023-04-07T21:10:56.857-05:00Day Seven ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%;"><tbody>
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Maureen Thorson’s <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-9" target="_blank">NaPoWriMo</a> prompt: “[W]rite a poem that plays with the idea of a list.”<br />
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Robert Lee Brewer’s <a href="https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-7" target="_blank">Poem-a-Day</a> prompt: “[W]rite a small poem. <nobr>. . .</nobr> The poem itself could be concise, but it could also be focused on something or someone small.”<br />
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Here is Alan's poem, arising from both prompts.<br />
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<blockquote><b> The Four Best Cigarettes My Dad Ever Smoked </b><br />
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The one he lit up in front of his mother when she came, angry during an intermission <br>
in the revival service, to ask why he had not returned for the third preacher, <br>
confirming her suspicions and knowing she would berate him all the way home <br>
after the service ended, <br>
The one he dropped into the fuel fill hose of a 1953 Ford Crestline Victoria when the <br>
shop manager cussed him and told him to pack its wheel bearings yet a third <br>
time, <br>
The one from a new pack of Pall Malls he bought when he also first bought my mom a <br>
new pack of Salems. He had slipped his half pack of Pall Malls in his front pants <br>
pocket so he could start a fresh pack when she did. I don’t know why he told me this <br>
story. <br>
The one when he left the nursing home for the first time after having taken his mother <br>
there to stay, each inhale slower than the previous one, until he felt still <br>
enough to drive home to us. </nobr><br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote>
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Okay, here's my poem <nobr>. . .</nobr> arising also from both prompts again. As far as small goes, the poem is relatively small, I guess. Just 10 1/2 lines, a curtal sonnet again. I suppose I have written small poems all week. For what it's worth, I do recommend something small in the poem. <br />
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<blockquote><b> What to Do? </b><br />
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What things might one put on a to-do list <br>
at this time of year? Maybe plant some spring <br>
flowers? Snowdrops, poppies, bluebells, primrose? <br>
Nothing there for me to do or assist, <br>
even. Mother Earth’s got that. Spring cleaning? <br>
Been keeping on it all winter, so those <br>
<br>
small tasks are covered as well. Maybe dust? <br>
Nah, it's got to be a small list. One thing <br>
on it: just live, baby, just live. Who knows? <br>
We could be gone like that! Everyone must. <br>
A small list, kept close. <br>
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<blockquote><nobr><i>—Draft by Vince Gotera <span style="color: #999999;">[Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]</span></i></nobr></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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