Tuesday, April 26, 2016

GONNA GET HOME TODAY

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Dear god, I just got today's poems done and already the prompts are up for mañana! NaPoWriMo for tomorrow: Which, henceforth, shall be referred to as "today".

"Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates a call and response. Calls-and-responses are used in many sermons and hymns (and also in sea chanties!), in which the preacher or singer asks a question or makes an exclamation, and the audience responds with a specific, pre-determined response. (Think: Can I get an amen?, to which the response is AMEN!.). You might think of the response as a sort of refrain or chorus that comes up repeatedly, while the call can vary slightly each time it is used. Here’s a sea chanty example:

Haul on the bowline, our bully ship’s a rolling,
Haul on the bowline, the bowline Haul!
Haul on the bowline, Kitty is my darlin’,
Haul on the bowline, the bowline Haul!
Haul on the bowline, Kitty lives in Liverpool,
Haul on the bowline, the bowline Haul! 
The call can be longer than the response, or vice versa. But think of your poem as an interactive exchange between one main speaker and an audience."

I expect it will take me until mañana to figure out what I'm doing with this one!
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And, mañana it is! In fact, it's after 11PM. Today we drove home to the Kootenays from Vancouver. It's just shy of an eight hour drive. I then had to get Income Tax stuff ready to take to the person who does it mañana. And now I'm ready to write my poem for the day! It shall be written right here on screen. There shall be little or no editing. It shall likely not be very good. But here goes. (And I'm done, and I can't figure out why it's spacing funny and I don't care, I'm tired and I'm going to bed!)

Gonna Get Home Today

Start out early, pack up the car,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Golden Ears Bridge looks pretty in the sun,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today

Big ol' Fraser River is a muddy one, for sure,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Grab a cup of coffee at Hope's Blue Moose,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Sleep all the way through the winding Hope-Princeton,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Hardly any traffic, hip hip hooray,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Everything, everywhere, green, green green!
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Cows near Midway got lots of babies,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Coast into Castlegar right around six,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.

Yard looks fine, got flowers everywhere,
Driving through the mountains, gonna get home today.


















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