“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” – Chuck Palahniuk
Author: Othermary
More Writing about not Writing, but with Rhyme
Nothing much to say today
My thought have dried and blown away.
No joyful verse with a cherry ring
no lyrics for anyone to sing
no humor, no sorrow, no angry rants,
about liars with fires in their pants
no sentimental sop, no wishful dreaming,
no outraged protests to be read screaming
no flights of fancy or bumble bees,
no pleading to deities on my knees.
Nothing much to say today,
the muse has stolen my words away.
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Today someone was shot.
I live in America.
In America
someone is shot every day.
At least one person dies
every day
in my state.
Many people are shot
in my country every day
because I live in America
land of the brave.
And you’d better be brave,
because tomorrow
you may be the one
to get shot.
Just Call Me Alice – NaPoWriMo #30
I’m at a loss.
This world doesn’t make
sense to me.
Everyone is in a rush,
worried over being late,
and I can never quite catch up.
People hide behind false smiles,
bright and frightening.
And soon as I figure something out
it all changes.
Little things become big deals,
as easy as pie (or cake).
Everything I know
falls around me like a house of cards.
How do I wake from this nightmare?
Today’s prompt is to write a poem in which the speaker is identified with, or compared to, a character from myth or legend.
Blaze Quadrille – NaPoWriMo #29
You wax
I wane
your ecstasy
is my pain
my loss
is your gain
and your ease
becomes my strain
My silence
your phrase
you curse
while I praise
Your clarity
is my haze
your map
my maze
and my ashes
ignite your blaze
The prompt for today is to write a quadrille, 44 words exactly, including the word blaze at dVerse Poets’ Pub: https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/29/quadrille-200/
Sijo – NaPoWriMo #28
NaPoWriMo prompt for today:
Write a sijo which is a traditional Korean verse form with three lines of 14-16 syllables. The first line introduces the poem’s theme, the second discusses it, and the third line, which is divided into two sentences or clauses, ends the poem – usually with some kind of twist or surprise.
I walk through streets of broken glass
lined with empty buildings
In this vacant town even the ghosts
have moved away
Here I will set up house
with my memories of you
Crazy Cat Lady Problems – NaPoWriMo #27
I have a lalpful of cat this morning.
He’s large and orange and purring and
does not care one bit that I need to write today.
I suppose this is the crazy cat lady version of,
“the dog ate my homework”
Wind and Fire – NaPoWriMo #26
Somewhere a fire is burning,
dry leaves and unleavened loaves
turning to ash
with unabashed women
stirring, stirring,
until the flames regain their whirling heights
hungrily devouring all in their path
souring our ideas of power
And the dry ash flies up
on the wind
independent of even gravity,
dancing and drifting with the depravity
of fiery demons
And somewhere winds are shrieking
blowing, billowing, and peaking
above the church’s spire
higher and wilder
catching up papers, leaves, rags, and sheaves.
Then lightning strikes, it sparks and starts a fire.
Nothing Much to Say – NaPoWriMo #25
I can almost feel blood pulsing
through the capillaries that carry it
down
to my fingertips
as I press the computer keys
to type this drivel.
I have nothing much to say
but I need to say it for another five days,
because April is the month of
30 poems in 30 days,
and this is only number 25.
So if you stick with me, gentle reader,
you may learn more of my
very, very ordinary life
my cats, my dog,
my weird little hangups,
and weirder little random thoughts
that stroll through my head
mostly unbidden, and usually hidden from you and you and you.
In the Beginning – NaPoWriMo #24
Beginnings and endings can be tricky,
We mark beginnings in many ways,
A ball drop, a photograph, a toast
or an awkward introduction.
And there are all sorts of middles –
dramatic
disappointing
painful
suspenseful
incredible
satisfying
fulfilling
harrowing
crushing
or just… middling
With endings we often don’t know
when they are happening
a final goodbye or a last kiss,
Endings and beginnings can be tricky.
I started with the idea of palindromes, when I looked at today’s date, and that took me to the more general idea of beginnings and endings.