Mar
15

Big Water

I want to take a cruise ship ride
but I fear my trip will be unfulfilling
due to catatonia for the duration
brought on by excess contemplation
from the time the ship leaves dock.

TV shows, movies, and standup tell it,
but ad commercials collectively miss the point
by not mentioning you’re in the middle
of a gi-normous body of water
that freezes you in less than eight minutes
(I saw it in a movie too)
that Titanic went down in a big ass
body of water like this, and when she sank
any who didn’t paddle far enough away
in their little dingy lifeboats
got sucked down too.

Hypnosis and courage would kick in
hopefully
if I made it to dry land again
and help to return me to myself.

A cruise is not in the cards for me
not today at any rate.

Mar
15

NaPoWriMo Kicks off Second Quarter 2010

Today is midway of the month. Only 16 days left to be ready to write a poem daily. And really that’s not so bad. I have done that periodically for a few years now. Often writing two or three poems in a sitting.

The challenge is to whip one into shape to be a decent draft to post. This year will be my first time posting a new poem daily for the entire month of April!

Prompts to go Further

My challenge is increased by having to write to prompts. I had planned to continue writing to prompts through the first quarter of this year. That plan got away from me easily since it was easy to let things get in the way of the work of writing to prompts. My mistake. I should have kept up the practice.

I participated in the November with Poetic Asides PAD chapbook challenge. (The first versions are online in case you dare to look, not the edited ones I submitted.) I succeeded in writing a poem for each day, even if not on that day. The hard part for me was the push to write from daily prompts someone else set for me.

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