days of wine and distancing

the days are grains of sand
setting the soles of my feet on fire
i feel them screaming when I pause
to watch the waves swallow
the strand into the blue
cloudless, Atlantic sky laughing
the soles of my feet are frozen
no comfort where my heart resides
it’s giffle gaffle, to live this way
lies become true if you believe them
when life give you lemons make lemonade
tipple the tart koolaid of imbeciles
where pandemics disappear like magic
and service workers are masked superheroes
and this couch potato is saving the world
they all learned they were kindred then
behind the walls of their penetrable fortresses
we will beat this invisible foe or die suffocating
apres la pluie le beau temps
where dancing dogs fiddle, my feet burn
home sweet home is bittersweet

-kat

NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 5: Use/do all of the following in the same poem. Of course,  if you can’t fit all twenty projects into your poem, or a few of them get your poem going, that is just fine too!

• Begin the poem with a metaphor.
• Say something specific but utterly preposterous.
• Use at least one image for each of the five senses, either in succession or scattered randomly throughout the poem.
• Use one example of synesthesia (mixing the senses).
• Use the proper name of a person and the proper name of a place.
• Contradict something you said earlier in the poem.
• Change direction or digress from the last thing you said.
• Use a word (slang?) you’ve never seen in a poem.
• Use an example of false cause-effect logic.
• Use a piece of talk you’ve actually heard (preferably in dialect and/or which you don’t understand).
• Create a metaphor using the following construction: “The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun) . . .”
• Use an image in such a way as to reverse its usual associative qualities.
• Make the persona or character in the poem do something he or she could not do in “real life.”
• Refer to yourself by nickname and in the third person.
• Write in the future tense, such that part of the poem seems to be a prediction.
• Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective.
• Make a declarative assertion that sounds convincing but that finally makes no sense.
• Use a phrase from a language other than English.
• Make a non-human object say or do something human (personification).
• Close the poem with a vivid image that makes no statement, but that “echoes” an image from earlier in the poem.