Hi!
Today’s prompt challenged me to write a concrete poem:
“In brief, a concrete poem is one in which the lines are shaped in a way that mimics the topic of the poem.” Day Twenty-Eight (napowrimo.net)
Depending on what device/browser you are viewing my offering on, you may or may not be able to tell, but I tried to shape today’s poem into a cloud. I have put a forward slash at the end of each line to help with the sense of rhyme. I’ve also written the poem out ‘normally’ below my cloud 😉
I wanted to be comfort, tend to
pain/ Wave a welcome umbrella in the rain/
I wanted to be loved for being me/ Passionate, a whirlwind,
also kindly./ But now I’ve spent my Thursday tired and torn/In
three-day-old Pyjamas, and I mourn./ This chronic lack of progress, weighty woes/
Make all my courage plummet to my toes./ Birds holler from the boughs ‘bout Spring’s
bounty/ And bursting leaves scream “opportunity!”/ I’d so much like to
walk the world today/ But hidden things keep getting in my way./
How can I be so loving yet so numb?/ I shake my head at why
I have become/ A source of contradiction and sad words/
When I ‘should’ be as chirpy as those birds.
I wanted to be comfort, tend to pain,
Wave a welcome umbrella in the rain.
I wanted to be loved for being me:
Passionate, a whirlwind, also kindly.
But now I’ve spent my Thursday tired and torn,
In three-day-old Pyjamas, and I mourn;
This chronic lack of progress, weighty woes
Make all my courage plummet to my toes.
Birds holler from the boughs ‘bout Spring’s bounty
And bursting leaves scream “opportunity!”
I’d so much like to walk the world today
But hidden things keep getting in my way.
How can I be so loving yet so numb?
I shake my head at why I have become
A source of contradiction and sad words
When I ‘should’ be as chirpy as those birds.
I hope all of your skies have been clear today. Take care and I’ll be back for the penultimate day of NaPoWriMo 2022, tomorrow!!
Monty X
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