Okay, today is the final day of the poeming part of this challenge. Beginning tomorrow (if not already), you’ll begin the process of revising and assembling a 10-20 page poetry chapbook manuscript. Click here to review the guidelines.
Today’s prompt comes from Violet Nesdoly.
Here’s Violet’s prompt: Write a milk poem. This could be about the moo-juice kind of milk. Or it could explore milk metaphorically, as in the expression “milk of human kindness.” Of course it could also be about the act of milking something. And no, it doesn’t have to be nourishing.
Robert’s attempt at a Milk Poem:
“The Final Poem”
The final prompt, the final day,
and here I am milking the situation
as if tomorrow won’t come, as if
it won’t bring more prompts, more
poems, more lines to break.
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Today’s prompt comes from Bonita Jones Knott, a poet I met earlier this year in Colorado at a writing retreat.
Here’s Bonita’s prompt: Write a birth poem. Write a poem on the experience of giving birth or witnessing birth, or feeling reborn in anyway.
Robert’s attempt at a Birth Poem:
“Good morning”
Every morning, I find myself next to you
or thinking of how I want to find myself
next to you. Every morning, like a blessing,
I’m reborn into my love for you, knowing
there’s no one I’d rather find myself next
to in the morning and no one I’d rather
want to find myself next to in the morning.
Every morning, like magic, like hocus
pocus, I want to be the rabbit in your
magician’s hat, the one you grab by
the ears to hold in front of the audience,
or, like a science experiment, I want
to be your hypothesis, the one you
constantly test to draw your conclusion.
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