Wickedness

 

Na/GloPoWriMo Day Nine asks us to engage in another kind of cross-cultural exercise, as it is inspired by the work of Sei Shonagon

Wickedness isn’t born like me or you or a kitten, it doesn’t sprout from the ground like a flower or a tree.

Wickedness is created, like a painting,  stroke by stroke upon an unyielding piece of canvas

like a mural on a wall with nothing to stop it  from becoming something else other then a cool brick wall.

Wickedness is like Frankenstein’s Monster stitched together in secret from stolen corpses taken from the ground in the dead of night against their will  with rough hands and rusty shovels.

Wickedness in a tribute, a memorial to the remains of good things

that should have been.

The Gardeners

Na/GloPoWriMo! Day Eight Prompt didn’t speak to me exactly, but this phrase from the business jargon phrases generator that they said could inspire a poem did: “conveniently cultivate professional human capital .”

Here we go:

Photo A.M. Moscoso

 

She came to our door

bible in hand

wearing sensible shoes and floral printed

dress

she was wearing a hat

with daisies painted on the rim.

 

My son answered

our door

and he said hello

The lady in the hat  got to the point, wanted to save his Soul.

 

” Do you know what will happen to you in the next life, do you know who will meet

after you die?

she asked my son who was about 16 at the time.

He said in all honesty, he did not.

 

As she smiled and

prepared to claim his soul

in the name of her Lord

my Son  said quietly, gently

as he imagined I would do:

 

” My Mother’s a mortician, and  who knows? Maybe one day she’ll  have the chance to meet you too.”

Um. Thank You?

Na/GloPoWriMo! Day Seven:

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of gifts and joy.

What would you give yourself, if you could have anything?

What would you give someone else?

Photo A.M. Moscoso

If I could pick just one gift,

something special

my secret wish

I’d give myself a gargoyle

with sharp pointy teeth

I’d give myself a gargoyle

with leathery wings.

 

If I could give the world

just one special gift

something I loved

something that screams me

 

I’d send it my gargoyle

with  leathery wings

I’d send it my gargoyle

with sharp pointy teeth

and claws.

Photo A.M Moscoso

23 Skidoo

Inspired by the Day  Day Six  Na/GloPoWriMo prompt: Why we need poetry.

I’m beginning to wonder about that myself because:

 

Yesterday I learned

that poetry has rules

that you must follow

1-2-3

 

Yesterday I leaned

that poets, true poets, real poets

follow those rules

1-2-3

MARCH ON CUE

 

Learn those rules so that you can

be a poet too

1-2-3-4

Left,right,left,right, right, left, right left!

 

You know what?
Screw that

and may I add

soulfully, poetically,

23 skidoo

stupid poetry rules.