Poetry Week

Don't blame me, OBX Dave started it when he talked about Edgar Allan Poe, which rhymes with David Allen Coe (I cannot believe it's taken me 55 years to realize that). What doesn't often rhyme is my poetry. 

My multi-hyphenate kid (poet-dancer-choregrapher-lunatic) turned me on to Robert Peake's poetry prompt generator a couple of years ago, and we'll send quickly dashed-off poems to one another on occasion. Mostly me sending to them these days, as they have bigger artistic fish to fry.

And now I'll send a few to you, 'cause a little bit of poetry never hurt. Here are a couple of my recent attempts at turning prompts into poems. I don't know from meter, and fuck off with rhyming, but I've got some tonality, if I do say so myself. Professor Truck taught us about timbre, and that's where I'm hanging my hat.

Forthwith, a couple of pomes (with the prompt that inspired them in bold):

Include as many of the following words (or variations on these words) as you like: luminous, larkspur (purple, palmate), variance, mutual, drupelets (little bits of fruit like blackberry), samite (rich silk fabric), roosted, relic, sage, occidental, feignings, faithless

Also:

• Include a mythical or fantastic creature
• Refer to a particular sensation

Samite scarf shining as larkspur

Luminous, she spins
Faithless, but not without belief
A relic, maybe, but sage

Mutual friends roosted in one 
Not the other
Feignings of neutrality as drupelets
Fall off slowly, inevitably

She went to Occidental
The Mighty Tigers
Now the variance vibrates
Pins and needles in her heart

Include as many of the following words (or variations on these words) as you like: withhold, penelope, intricately, ignatow, deepened, leg-music, underrate, focused, scribal, dayglo, unhurt, parasitic

Also:

• Refer to an an extreme or intemperate landscape
• Mention something absurd or impossible

Mel Ingatow got away with murder

Dayglo insanity, parasitic, unhurt, unfazed

Moonscape of electronic leg-music

Withholding human emotion, focused on

Penelope’s intricately carved ivory charm

Karma, underrated, killed him on a glass table

Include as many of the following words (or variations on these words) as you like: tertiary, pot, groin-scented, grifters, enslaves, git, statuesque, discount, ripeness, compost, twenty-second, spatula

Also:

• Make up an unusual name for a person and include it in the poem
• Mention another art form besides poetry

Git, grifters

Tertiary members of a discount

Society 

Flantz told me he danced

While the enslavers smoked pot

Groin-scented, loamy, composted and 

Wobbly statuesque

Took my only spatula

Fought off the twenty-second infantry

With only the ripeness of my imagination

I encourage the assembled Gheorghiness to compose their own pomes below.