Monthly Archives: April 2013

My customers love her honey and so…

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I keep the wall between us as we go.
She places jars of honey in a row,
conversing about buds and melting snow.
Her eyes contain no kindness that I see;
they never even rise to look at me.
Yet here she is, discussing pleasantries;
like spring, and the arrival of her bees.
My wall builds up with buzzing irony.

Brenda Warren 2013

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Process Notes:
Miz Quickly’s prompt today offered six lines of iambic pentameter as possible starting points. Rephrase it, add to it, respond to it. Write six more iambic lines to complete your beginning. Er….something like that.  Click on the pic to go to Quickly’s place.

I chose the line “We keep the wall between us as we go…” for my starting point. Miz Quickly tells us that line comes from Robert Frost’s “The Mending Wall.” Thanks to Quickly & Frost for the inspiration.

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it springs forth with a first

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Disguised in happiness,
April’s dense blooming words
blow over winter’s white illusions,
as hundreds of images
flicker tales chiller than
the underside of snow’s
shivering soul.

Phantom blooms waltz links
between screens as words
spill into cracks
caulking chasms
with prehensile roots,
quivering tentacles,
that tease spring eternal.

Brenda Warren 2013

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Process Notes: Inspiration comes in many forms. Today’s prompt is a combination of the first official NaPoWriMo prompt, and a prompt from Miz Quickly’s Impromptu Poetry Month hosted by Tennessee poet Barbara Yates Young.  I think that’s Miz Quickly in her airplane flying by to check things out.

The NaPo folks asked that we start our piece with the first line from another poet’s work. The initial phrase in this piece is from Pamela Kaler Sayer’s work, In Simple Hue. Miz Quickly asked that we come up with seven words and use at least five of them in a poem. My seven words were hundred, month, blooming, dense, blow, tale, and link. I did not use month.

Is this poem nonsense? Of course it is (no it is most definitely not). Yes, it is.  Miz Quickly appreciates stuff like that.