NaPoWriMo, that marvellous font of ideas for things to write about, has this for us today:
"today we challenge you to write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can. Go for broke with metaphors, similes, and more."
Got as far as this and couldn't think of a damn thing I wanted to praise. Then Kim Goldberg posted this fabulous quotation on social media and I just love it! Also, I have no green thumb at all and now I can't even have indoor plants because the cats will eat them.
"Cover your bookcases with rugs and linens of fine quality; preserve them from dampness and mice and injury; for it is your books that are your true treasure.... Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens: bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh. And when your soul be weary, change from garden to garden, and from prospect to prospect." -Spanish Jewish scholar Ibn Tibbon, 12th century
Just watched a wonderful book launch event with Caitlin Press and Betsy Warland who is launching her new collection of prose poems, Lost Lagoon—lost in thought. This was done via Crowdcast, yet another platform allowing us to all get together, yay yay yay, being as how we can't. I liked how today's worked, even thought a couple of times my screen froze, but that is to be expected, I think, given the fact the almost the Whole World is online these days.
So I'm not writing to the prompt because I can't think of anything I love enough to respond to the prompt. Today, that is. I love lots of things (she says, defensively).
Instead, here are two of those three line/six word poems we did a week or so ago. I like that form!
Needle Deep in Pine Forest
Silence
needle deep
in pine forest
Feel
I'm wading
through thick molasses
Hush
be present
in the moment
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