Tag: wins

For NaPoWriMo Day 5 the prompt is as follows: ” The challenge is to 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!

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

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Credit: Keem Ibarra via Unsplash

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Tetrocrys — 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10

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You,

We’re my,

Rock; safety —

Amidst crossfire.

A cradle to an infant’s crying,

You supported her when lights went dim.

You were rest, sunny days, and warmth given.

You were support,

Wind surging,

Wings that —

Soar.

Life,

Inhaled,

Luscious grass,

Fresh aroma, with —

Strength (despite betrayal), hurled from stone.

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Yet,

You have,

Become a —

Safety net caught;

Around her strangling; she pushes through storms.

Never how she was, never how she’s been.

Anger for you,

Destroys you.

Time lost,

Leads —

To —

Increased,

Anger wrought.

No intention,

Of forgetting, your betrayal’s stark pain.

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Rocks,

Don’t mush;

They crumble,

Beneath feet when,

You’ve sworn to support, to in faith uphold;

There’s not enough in the world to forget;

Fake-kindness,

Ambiguity,

You’re vile,

Tool.

Dark creatures you know: vous avez tres coeures froid.

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You’ve,

Nothing,

But madness,

Sheer brokenness;

You should remain warm, open, soft.

But, your demeanour‘s frozen, false, empty.

You’re love‘s disgrace.

Flaming arrow,

Snuffed–out.

Wickless,

Light.

Pale,

Shifting,

Shadows that —

Lack reality,

No silver-bells or sweet tongues, you’re liars.

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They,

Of —

Utter black.

Memories warm,

Nothing but, the absence of light;

Of truth, love, you’ll never hold; so languish.

Sticky couer froid,

For even —

Stone calls —

Out;

Screams —

Against,

Your heartless tricks.

Thus, you’re endless trapped; God wins, beats you — no question.

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