04/21/25 - Day 21 of 30
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NaPoWriMo Prompt
And now here’s our daily (optional) prompt. Sawako Nakayasu’s poem “Improvisational Score” is a rather surreal prose poem describing an imaginary musical piece that proceeds in a very unmusical way. Today, try your hand at writing your own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire, but is described as if it is all very normal.
My Poem
How To Write a Love Song
Leap from a plane, gut clenched, heart in your mouth,
A shrieking Peregrine nosedive. Do you want to keep falling?
Would you live in that wild freedom forever?
When you land, pack that chute and set down that ride in verse.
Travel to exotic lands, like Polo for his Khan,
Discover the beautiful mysteries of far flung locales,
Will you see peasant pleasures and royal riches?
When you return, map your journey in a sacred journal.
Rescue an abandoned puppy and pledge yourself to their care.
Feed and befriend, fail and forgive, and love with all your being.
Will your furry forever challenge your melting heart?
When the last breath flows from their sloppy, happy face, write.
Let your guts twist on the spike of first-time betrayal.
Before that split second, was your entire life blissful ignorance?
From that point forward, will there be a thorn in your heart?
When you stop crying, capture that bilious ochre dawn in searing words.
Prick your thumb. See that you bleed.
Let your heart explode and let someone patch it up.
Mend your fences.
Be afraid and do it anyway.
Capture those vignettes.
That’s how to write a love song.
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