NaPoWriMo: today’s optional prompt. W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” takes its inspiration from a very particular painting: Breughel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” Today we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that describes a detail in a painting, and that begins, like Auden’s poem, with a grand, declarative statement.
 |
| image: Smarthistory.org Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1611–12-- 1620–21 |
Day Twenty Seven-NaPoWriMo-Inheritance
After Artemisia
Hold it! Let me behead Holofernes
Judith sliced through his bones and mass
Poised and gracious
She held him by the hair,
as one holds memory—tight, bitter, unrelenting
**The poem has been removed to facilitate for submissions. Thank you for visiting.**
Day Twenty Six-NaPoWriMo: here’s your prompt! Try your hand at a sonnet – or at least something “sonnet-shaped.” Think about the concept of the sonnet as a song, and let the format of a song inform your attempt. Be as strict or not strict as you want.
Day Twenty Six-NaPoWriMo-Sonnet in the Language of Wounds
I traced your pulse through silence, vein by vein,
Where starlight sank in skin like whispered thread.
You wore your sorrow soft, like summer rain—
A body blooming poems where it bled.
**The poem has been removed to facilitate for submissions. Thank you for visiting.**
No comments:
Post a Comment