April Musings - 20. NaPoWriMo 2018 Week One

NaPoWriMo Week One

1.

A choice not made is still a choice,

Hidden deep, stifled voice

Until the dam bursts open wide

Exposed to all, nowhere to hide.

2.

Winter melds into spring

Juxtaposing white and warmth

Scoffing at the date

3.

Brown appliances

Green wallpaper

Lacquered wood table

With extensions for special occasions.

Pungent tang of liverwurst

And stench of limburger,

Tastier than their odors.

Pancakes with crisp edges

And butter-flavored syrup.

Chocolate and sugar

Blended together into a fudgy treat.

Laughter

Song

Numbered plastic cubes

Tossed on lime-green plastic coverings

Prompting exclamations

Or groans.

Occasions now commemorated

In silent photographs.

4.

The Keurig you gave me for Christmas

spews half a cup of bitter brew

full of grounds

and the acrid taste of vinegar

from attempts to clean the blockage

preventing the smooth passage

of dark liquid into the waiting vessel.

The broken machine occupied

Precious counterspace for years

Until it was relegated to the trash bin

To make room for a new appliance.

5.

Cats don’t have existential fears

Or crises of conscience.

Their greatest joy is to

Curl into the brightest sunspot

And simply be.

6.

Anomia

“I would like blue,” she says,

Reaching for the green pencil.

“It’s very drokar outside.

I can’t wait for spring.”

“Drokar?” I ask.

“Yeah, I hate shoveling it.”

“You mean snow.”

“That’s what I said.

Black is better for flowers,” she states

As yellow scribbles fill the paper petals.

7.

The kneeling gardener whispers to the hidden tulip,

“Claw and tear your way through rock and soil, so

Winter may run from this sign of spring.”

Prompts used:

2. Images of spring

3. Write about a room or rooms you remember from long ago—a kitchen perhaps.

4. What prompts me to miss you? Write a poem about missing a loved one, deceased or otherwise departed. You might center the poem on a simple object that calls thoughts of this missing person to mind.

7. Create a one sentence poem from a list of five or six words. I asked Aditus to send me a list of words and this is what he sent: Knee, tear, tulip, claw, run, rock, whisper, hide