civilization left to gerrymandered right exposed their dark side, extreme-powered corruption, chaos-fed barbarism,
where democracy was devoured by madness and pro-life killers
~kat
NaPoWriMo 2023 Challenge Day Twenty; 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.
Today’s prompt took me down a dark rabbit hole. Things right now are completely mad. I can’t imagine what future generations will think of us. The poetry form: a tanka/senryu combo.
i am not a fan of flying and you can take the stairs, not me i get queasy, knees, weak, wobbly fear of heights is terrifying it’s downright debilitating for as long as I remember been a reticent ascender with feet on terra firma set but haven’t missed a vista yet a snail’s eye-view, full of splendor
~kat
NaPoWriMo 2023 Challenge Day Nineteen: 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.
For today, a Décima poem:
Décima poetry is a 10 line stanza with 8 syllables per line. The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc. Using the 10 lines there are generally two ways to organize: The 10 lines, or breaking the 10 lines into two stanzas using abba/accddc.
arrogant as always, because you believe, (conceit with a capital C) you deserve extra, first-class-grade grandiose homage, how indulgent, how insolent, insulting in fact just keeping you in luxury…how loathsome, mean, offensive particularly privileged, quintessentially rude and revolting is your self-absorbed, self-centered self to think that others are under you, useless, except to be used to voluntarily venerate your value, wait on your every want, whim, and wish…x plus y always equals you, yourself, and you, you, you it’s zaniness, that’s what it is just zip it…the world owes you zilch!
~kat (too much??? I hear you thinking…sheesh kat! tell us how you REALLY feel!!! Haha!)
NaPoWriMo2023 Challenge Day Eighteen: write an abecedarian poem – a poem in which the word choice follows the words/order of the alphabet. You could write a very strict abecedarian poem, in which there are twenty-six words in alphabetical order, or you could write one in which each line begins with a word that follows the order of the alphabet.
she is a wall at the forest’s edge an impenetrable bramble, untamed some say she’s invasive, an unruly hedge in fact she’s a rose of another sweet name
an impenetrable bramble, untamed greening each spring, flowering to buds in fact she’s a rose of another sweet name with drupelets sweet and ready to pluck
greening each spring, flowering to buds one must take care when venturing too close with drupelets sweet and ready to pluck her prickly cane stem’s a formidable foe
one must take care when venturing too close when fair rubis ursinus nips, she draws blood her prickly cane stem’s a formidable foe a favorite snack of deer folk and thrush
when fair rubis ursinus nips, she draws blood she is a wall at the forest’s edge a favorite snack of deer folk and thrush some say she’s invasive, an unruly hedge
~kat
NaPoWriMo2023 Challenge Day 17: Write a poem that contains the name of a specific variety of edible plant – preferably one that grows in your area. 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.
I chose to do a Pantoum ( see the rules below):
Stanza 1: ABAB 1 First line (A) 2 Second line (B) 3 Third line rhymes with first (A) 4 Fourth line rhymes with second (B)
Stanza 2: BCBC 5 Repeat the second line (B) 6 Sixth line (C) 7 Repeat the fourth line (B) 8 Eighth line rhymes with sixth (C)
Stanza 3: CDCD 9 Repeat the sixth line (C) 10 Tenth line (D) 11 Repeat the eighth line (C) 12 Twelfth line rhymes with the tenth (D)
Stanza 4: DADA 13 Repeat tenth line (D) 14 Fourteenth line rhymes with first (A) 15 Repeat twelfth line (D) 16 Repeat the first line (A)
if I were the least bit honest I would lie to you tell you everything is going to be okay that we will get through this you and me that one day we’ll look back and laugh at how silly it was for us to worry I would tell you this and more because it’s what you need to hear most right now but i’m not honest, not one bit the truth of the matter not that it matters is that I’m terrified this might not end well for you, for us… we just don’t need dishonesty when we’re hanging by a thread
~kat
NaPoWriMo2023 Challenge Day Sixteen: 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.
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