Showing posts with label Poetic Asides Prompt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetic Asides Prompt. Show all posts

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Holiday Thaw


Holiday Thaw

I asked Santa for
a holiday thaw.
Let us share warm
drinks and hot food.
Make the sun shine
outside and inside
so the ice will melt
and we will have
a breakthrough.

This poem was inspired by the Wednesday prompt, thaw, on the Poetic Asides website.


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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

No Outlet


No Outlet

Sometimes, I miss
the sign until I'm
into the turn.
No Outlet.
What should
I do next?
Curse because
I wasn't alert?
Give in to despair
and go nowhere or
go back to the
main road and take
another route?
I'm only at a
dead end if
I refuse to
make a move.

This week's Wednesday prompt on Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides Blog is to write a dead poem.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Watch Where You're Going


Watch Where You're Going

Watch where you're going!
It doesn't matter what I do.
I may stop short;
fake right, go left, or
turn around and
smash into you.
Watch where you're going and
guess where I'm going, too.

This week's Wednesday prompt on Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides Blog is to write about something you might shout. GIVE IT A TRY! Sorry, I didn't mean to shout.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Six More Words


For this week's Wednesday Poetry Prompt on Poetic Asides, Robert Lee Brewer randomly chose six words. The prompt is to use a minimum of three of the words in a poem. Robert also tossed out the idea of using all six words and writing a sestina. This type of poem consists of six-line stanzas. The last word in each line is repeated in each stanza, but in a different order. Click the link if you want to see the formula.

In researching the form, I found a sestina by Leon Schwartz entitled Six Words. He used one-word lines to create this sestina. I decided to use the six words Robert provided with the exception of changing translucence to translucent. My sestina doesn't have any great message. In fact, it really doesn't have any message. It was a fun exercise and I'd like to try it again, choosing the words myself.

At best, I hope I introduced you to a new poem/poetic form. At worst, I gave you a laugh for today.

Six More Words

Astronomical
premium.
Translucent
whirligig.
Fertile
doublespeak.

Doublespeak
Astronomical?
Fertile?
Premium
whirligig-
translucent.

Translucent
doublespeak?
Whirligig-
astronomical?
Premium-
fertile?

Fertile?
Translucent?
Premium
doublespeak.
Astronomical
whirligig.

Whirligig-
(fertile?)
astronomical,
translucent.
Doublespeak-
premium.

Premium whirligig.
Doublespeak-fertile,
(translucent?), astronomical.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Beginnings


Beginnings

At the start,
a burst of
excitement,
an increase
in the beat
of the heart.
High hopes and
misgivings
as to what
will unfold.
Then it's shown.
The beauty
that comes from
the unknown.

This poem was written in response to the Wednesday prompt "just as something changes" on Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides blog. 

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

The First Day of Spring


The First Day of Spring

It’s the first day of spring.
Daylight and darkness are equal,
but, for me, it’s the longest
day of the year.

Humans get so excited
when they see me.
I wish I knew who
started that myth
about seeing the
first robin of spring.
Besides, I don’t control
the weather.

Late snows aren’t a 
picnic for me either.
Flying in that stuff is brutal.
No one de-ices me and
I don’t have windshield wipers.
I get tired of eating frozen food
and don’t get me started on
shoveling out the nest.

Well, it’s only 24 hours.
Then, I can go back
to being just another
one of the birds.

This poem was written in response to this week's prompt on Poetic Asides.

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