Wednesday, April 2, 2025

NaPoWriMo - April, 2025 - Poem: Empowered

NaPoWriMo 2025

04/02/25 - Day 2 of 30

NaPoWriMo.net Article


NaPoWriMo Prompt

And now for our daily prompt – optional, as always. Anne Carson is a Canadian poet and essayist known for her contemporary translations of Sappho and other ancient Greek writers. For example, consider this version of Sappho’s Fragment 58, to which Carson has added a modern song-title, enhancing the strange, time-defying quality of the translation. And just as many songs do, the poem directly addresses a person or group – in this case, the Muses. Taking Carson’s translation as an example, we challenge you to write a poem that directly addresses someone, and that includes a made-up word, an odd/unusual simile, a statement of “fact,” and something that seems out of place in time (like a Sonny & Cher song in a poem about a Greek myth).


My Poem

Empowered


I don’t expect you

To understand, to know

My kind of suffering.

I don’t believe you care.


You’re sitting there like

A taco-bloated Budhha

Pretending to see me,

Crystal ball chicanery.


We’ve shared space for years.

But we don’t relate.

So, I ordered a Real-Man AI,

You know, the kind with an Off switch.

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