April Musings - 21. NaPoWriMo 2018 Week Two

NaPoWriMo 2018 Week Two

8.

The dull pencil,

Wooden and leaden,

Beckons slumbering wit

To sharpen with

Words and colors.

9.

Budded arms stretch toward crimson clouds,

Seeking to shed their frozen blanket.

It’s a January scene,

Breathtaking with shadowy contrast

Between stark lines,

Backlit by the colorful sunrise.

But it’s mid-April,

So this shit can stop any time.

10.

Diagnosis

What was once important

Rendered irrelevant

By a solitary word.

11.

Traffic Haiku

Horns and tempers blare

from the sheer audacity

of a slow right turn.

12.

A slate-gray sleeve peeks

From the mountain of multi-colored fabric

Piled high from avoidance of the most loathed of chores.

The once-black shirt sports a cracked image

Of a former-favorite band on tour

During a time when bouncing down stairs

Didn’t warrant a second thought.

13.

For moggy

It’s hard to write a poem

About someone only known

By a username and avatar.

Online, you can be anyone,

Anything

Have a life desired,

Far from cold reality.

Get lost in worlds fantastic

Or horrific.

Reveal feelings comfortably

Behind the veil of anonymity.

We knew you as a feisty booted feline

And cuddly creature not to be fed after midnight,

sharing updates of muttered words,

Or inspirational quotes,

A gentle soul no longer confined

To a broken body,

But free to soar.

14.

Easy Peasy Lasagna

Brown one pound ground beef with chopped onion

and salt and pepper to taste.

Avoid tripping over the cat.

Drain the fat into the rinsed soup can

from last night's dinner.

Add one jar tomato-basil pasta sauce

instead of grandma's spicy concoction

that simmered to perfection for an entire day.

Place one third of the meat sauce

in the bottom of the pan,

then layer no-cook noodles on top,

unless back pain takes a hiatus,

then boil the other kind.

Alternate layers of ricotta,

or cottage cheese if on a budget,

mozzarella, and noodles,

ensuring the process ends with sauce and real parmesan,

not the stuff from Kraft.

Cook

then cool and portion into freezer containers

for consumption when cooking a proper meal

is not an option.

Prompts used:

8. Object lesson. Let an object be your teacher. Pick an object. What can you learn from it?

12. Laundry prompt: needn’t be about laundry directly, but somehow let laundry come into it.

14. Recipe poem: The prompt is to write a poem one might actually cook from. The trick is to make the poem move beyond the recipe and become a real poem.