Hello genius poets and poetasters! I know we all strive to write as well as we can, but everything can't be Ezra Pound, can it? What about bad poetry? What about when you call it bad and it slinks around and sits softly at your feet and looks up with those I'm-sorry eyes? What then, meanie?
This week our Word List is taken from Pamela August Russell's volume B Is For Bad Poetry. Some of it is pretty funny. Here's an example:
Subterranean Abstraction
In Hell,
just before lunch
Gandhi is waving
a gun around
demanding a steak.
What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new original poem of our own. Then just link up, visit others, then tug on their sleeve, asking them repeatedly if they wouldn't like to read your haiku. Do it until they cave! This prompt remains active through Sunday.
And now, your List:
arrested
atomic
baked
ballrooms
cliff
consolation
cookie
Cubist
glue
haze
key
melting
movies
name
sad
starfish
waltzing
watery
waving
yen
Ha, this sounds like fun! I have too much from which to choose! LOL.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sherry, definitely sounds fun for sure! Always something wonderful to find when I come check out your prompt Shay!
ReplyDeleteI leaned into the concept. Thanks Shay!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the words and the delightful trip into Wonderland they allowed - Jae
ReplyDeleteAlas, poor Gandhi, I knew him well, Horatio. But to see him murdered in verse so! *sigh*
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ReplyDeleteI can do this all day long:
ReplyDeleteBasho plays chopsticks —
Rice wine snorted out the nose
Music to my ears
I had fun with this Shay. I went all in on bad poetry.
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