Road to Nowhere (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) Day Ten

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Poetry, Day Ten: Future

Could it be our last day of Intro to Poetry already?! Let’s keep our spirits up by focusing on whatever it is that’s coming next. Whether it’s about tomorrow, next October, or the year 2345, let today’s poem be inspired by your vision of the future. (Fears, hopes, and plans are equally acceptable, of course. As are robots!)

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” William Shakespeare

Road to Nowhere 

The future
Now uncertain
When removed is
The safety curtain

No time
For bloopers
Nor reruns
Used is
The last dime
For a trip
To the sun

First
Summer
Then fall
No bummer
Just a ball
Future
Unfolds

We are
On a road
To nowhere
Travelling fast
Forgetting
The past
It would not
Have lasted
Anyway

Future
Unknown
Or so
We were told
Never mind
Just be kind
Your place
You will find

Past, present
All in imperfect
Time still
Well spent

Now
Heads up
Finish
Your cup
Legs, arms
Tucked inside
Let the slide
Your way
Down guide

road-to-nowhere

Imperfect Me (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry)

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Day Five_ Imperfect

* We find faults in ourselves, in others, and in the world around us all the time. Today, write a poem about the imperfect nature of someone or something, whether you accept these imperfections or complain about them, try to fix them or celebrate them.

“Me, myself and I”

Imperfect Me

Past tense

Imperfect
Useless to object
The mirror
Truth reflects

Between tenses

Hiding
In the shadows
Finding
My own place

Dark images
Hiding blemishes
Trying to be
Perfect me

Present tense

Imperfect me
Exists
In the daylight
Also

Accepted
I am
Imperfect

imperfect-me

A Journey to the Island (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry)

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Day Four_ Journey

* Today, write a poem about a journey. You could channel your excitement about a trip you’re about to embark on (or just returned from), comment on the mental progress you witnessed someone make, or focus on the struggles, pleasures, and extreme emotions that travel can bring about.
* Enhance your poem with a simile if you’d like — it’s a common poetic device that uses words like “as” or “like” to show similarity between two unconnected concepts.

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love” Ernest Hemingway

A Journey to the Island 

trip-1

The long trip survived
We had finally arrived

For long the journey
Had been planned
Sometimes with moods of stormy
With many a doors slammed

But now, as I am sitting
A view in front of me fitting
My mood is calmer than the sea
And intentions anything but flee

We had finally arrived

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