Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The Shadorma and the Broken Window...and other stories...

Image courtesy of E2NZ

Street Baseball

Broken glass
lying in the street
means one thing,
just one thing:
I hit a huge line drive. Now...
you have no windshield.

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Today, I'm going to be posting a bunch of poems.  The above Shadorma was written in response to two different prompts by Big Tent Poetry: 1.) write about a broken window, and 2.) write about something that no longer exists.  If you want to be picky, I suppose the window in my poem does actually still exist, but instead of one large piece of glass (ie the windshield) attached to the car, now there are lots of little tiny windshields which have been (for lack of a better term) set free.

Magpie Tales provided a photographic prompt of a glass of ruby colored liquid sitting on a marble surface.  Inspired by the Shadormas I saw on Reflections' and Jinksy's sties yesterday, I wrote yet another one:


Vintage Shadorma

A wine glass
holds many secrets
one unlocks
with a sip,
but beware: one secret, like
one sip, leads to more.

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And finally, Poetic Asides.  The prompt (a two-fer for Tuesday) was to write a poem in poetic form and/or not (ie anti-form.)

Pro-Forma Shadorma

The pressure
from having to write
a poem
on each day
for a full thirty days is
undeniable.

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De-Versify

Poems written in free verse
on metric scale are simply worse
than any rhyme. They are a curse.
But if you still would wish to nurse

your muse, instead of the other way ‘round, you can write whatever you want to write then without worryorfearofthosenastyrhymesandemetricswhicharesuchapainintheyouknowwhat.

Rebut?

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Couplet

Anti-form is not the norm
for poetry that’s penned by me.

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Monday, April 11, 2011

What Might Well Be

Image provided by Monday's Child - Illustration by Edith Storer

What Might Well Be

In a shady spot 'neath the trees,
with a meadow nearby
I felt my hair blow in the breeze…
Ahhh…just some girls and I.
My two best friends, Bella and Jane
pretended that we were in Spain
or maybe France…
or maybe France…
where they’d find a debonair swain.

I said, “If I went far away
to England, Spain or France
I’d grand jeté in a ballet.
No prince. I wanna dance.”
My friends giggled at my folly.
Jane said, “Sarah, oh by golly!
You silly girl!
You silly girl!”
Bella said, “Isn’t this jolly?”

Then…Bella said, “I’ll be a spy
so I can save the world!”
“You can’t keep a secret, so why
be that?” Jane asked.  I twirled
my boater in a pirouette.
“If she wants to, Jane, then I bet
she’ll be a spy;
she’ll be a spy,”
and then I added, “Just not yet.”

“Well, I’m gonna be royalty!”
Jane said with a flourish.
“And I’ll demand your loyalty!”
“You’re so amateurish,”
I said.  I stood and curtseyed low.
“The truth is Jane, we just don’t know
what might well be;
what might well be:
but sun has set.  It’s time to go.”

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Notes: Monday's Child provided a lovely prompt today of an illustration by Edith Storer.  The poetic form is Trijan Refrain.  I also have more poems posted today at Poetic Asides' PAD Challenge.


Saturday, April 9, 2011

Stamp Act

Image courtesy of the Poster Stamp List

Stamp Act

Legend says…

King George the Fifth collected stamps ~
about this, he was avid,
and once a rare stamp caught his eye,
he simply had to havid.

One day, The Times’ headline read
that fourteen hundred pounds
was paid for just one single stamp.
“Gah!  Lunacy abounds!”

did cry the Secretary of
His Majesty, the King.
“I cannot quite imagine why
some damned fool’d do this thing.”

The King looked at his humble aide
and said, “I know, and you’ll
be satisfied to learn this fact:
Sir, I am that damned fool.”

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(Note: One of the prompts from Big Tent Poetry was to write on 'Legend says...')