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NaPoWriMo Day 7: Smorgasbord Prompt Day


Darth Squirrely

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Here is today's prompt. I'm going to give it a shot:

Today’s prompt is a bit of a smorgasbord, and reflects the fact that we are at day seven. It asks you to write a poem with seven different phrases, ideas, or just plain old “things” in it. These are:

1) an example of synasthetic metaphor — one that describes one sensory perception using adjectives more naturally suited to a different sense (e.g., “a red noise,” or a “a bitter touch”)

2) a fruit

3) the name (first or last) of someone you knew in school

4) a rhetorical question

5) a direct address to the poem’s audience — “Reader” or “mom” or “Michelle,” or maybe just “You”)

6) a word in a foreign language

7) a reference to a game of chance (darts or pool or the lottery or etc).

_________________________

How can you, a reader, know

What reddish thoughts run through my mind?

A haze of bloody tendencies

There for only me to find?

Like solitaire, I'm solitary

Keeping my motivos close

Hidden from the world around me

Wanting things that no one knows

A pink-brushed apple I am not

Though Mr. Cherry claims it's so

A daring accusation made

That only brings unneeded woe

I shall unleash the wrath within

When certain things have come to pass

But till that moment comes to be

Remember, troubled, that I last

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I like this. It's tough to write something good sometimes when there are so many stipulations, but this poem actually flows and doesn't feel like a patchwork piece of writing.

I like how 'Mr. Cherry' and 'Solitaire' could both be used to fill more than one requirement. :D

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Thanks! :D

I think I remember writing this poem; it was HARD. I don't know how many times I had to reword it and rework it and change the overall idea.

Huh, now that I think on it, that's not unlike any other writing process.

I guess I know something of revision after all. :D

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