NaPoWriMo Day Six and dVerse Poetics Submission

Valediction at the Target

For some reason
I am compelled to
answer the phone.
(No, that's a lie
I had to confirm something...
it was important at the time.)

I was that person that annoys me.
The one talking on the phone
in the middle of the aisle
in Target.
And I conveyed the info.
And now I am stuck.
I can't get off the phone.

Then the hollering...
the unhappy little kid
the one that must have a toy
RIGHT NOW!
He is so close
the shrill unhappiness reverberates my phone.

What?
MOMMY!
I'm sorry what?
I NEED A GREEN GOBLEM! RIGHT NOW MOMMY!
I can't hear you.
NO MOMMY NOW!
I know, it's like he's right next to me.
TIME OUT MOMMY!
I know...did you get everything you needed
YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!
before he...
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
okay.
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHhhhhh  hhh hhh hhh hhh
Yeah I know we never seem to connect...
(angry little kid sobbing)
Yeah, talk to you soon.
(even more angry little kid sobbing)
Bye now!

I can't tell you the relief
of becoming untethered.
I hate talking on the
phone.
Even more talking in
crowded places.

Who's my sad
very good boy who is
going to get the
BIGGEST GREEN GOBLEM EVER
for calming down
and
getting Mommy off the phone?

Yeah I don't mind so much
being
that
Person.

heidi

written 4/6/13 for both  and dVerse Poetics  


Hey! Look at me not writing a cinquain, AND combining two prompts. I think I fudged the intention of the NaPoWriMo prompt (write a valediction) and Kelvin's dVerse prompt (write a poem that is an anecdote). However, prompts are to help get you writing, and this one amused me. (That probably means that I am the only one that will like it but that's okay.)

And I think that I need to see if dVerse still has buttons. Happy Saturday Y'all (and I think maybe Happy Sunday for some of Y'all too!)

NaPoWriMo Day Five: Five Cinquains for a Cinquain

Five Cinquains for a Cinquain

Is it
possible to
become addicted to
poetry form, compulsively
writing

The same
style over and
over like consuming
the same meal everyday and not
tiring?

Precious
cinquain now holds
premier space in my heart
and page, as over and over
I write

More words
in five lines of
2-4-6-8-2 so
many mundane topics that I
covered.

I need
intervention.
Maybe a new form will
turn my head? I think not any
time soon.

heidi
written 4/5/13 for 

listen to ‘Five Cinquains for a Cinquain’ on Audioboo

Okay, so one long poem that is five cinquains, but, in all fairness, today's prompt was to write a cinquain! Yay! And it is also my sweetie-pie's birthday...Happy Birthday Aoife!

NaPoWriMo Day Four: Jaundiced Outlook

Jaundiced Outlook

A soft

place turned hard like

an eggplant growing out

the inside of my leg. Stupid

damn cyst. 

heidi

written 4/4/13 for 

listen to ‘Jaundiced Outlook’ on Audioboo

I'm a day behind in getting this typed into the blog and posted. And look! It's a cinquain! What a surprise. I wanted to do the challenge and write a sea chanty, (I even had a great "pain in the ass" final line) but a cinquain is what happened. Is it possible to get addicted to a form?

NaPoWriMo Day Three: You Are Always on My Netflix

You Are Always on My Netflix

Fighting
was never so
kick ass and fun until
Xena yelled a war cry to save
us all.

heidi
written at the very end of the day 4/3/13 for 

listen to ‘You Are Always on My Netflix’ on Audioboo

I told you that you'd see a lot of cinquains.

NaPoWriMo Day Two: Five Tiny Lies

Five Tiny Lies

I tell
myself I am
a good mother but that
is a lie. My sweeties deserve
better.


I do
not think that my
marriage is draining the
very soul out of me leaving
a husk.

If I
weren't such a bum
lazy and useless then
I could have been great, created
something.

I have
not wasted my
opportunities that
would have lifted a better one
than me.


I have
not let myself
fall apart and succumbed
to the lies my depression spews
at me.

heidi
written 4/2/13 for 

listen to ‘Five Tiny Lies’ on Audioboo

Today's prompt at the NaPoWriMo website was to write a lie.  This is the first draft of what I wrote (like almost everything else on here.) I don't know how I feel about it. I don't think I like it very much.       I am hoping that now that it is out I can write something funny.

NaPoWriMo Day One: Nightmares

Nightmares

Sometimes they
play scary movies on my wall.

Sometimes they
touch my cheek as I am falling asleep.

Sometimes they
make creaking noises that only I can hear.

Sometimes they
whisper horrible things.

Sometimes they
keep me awake almost all night.

Sometimes they
threaten to carry me away.

Sometimes they
laugh when I cry for Mommy...

but not always.


heidi
written 4-1-13 for NaPoWriMo 

listen to ‘Nightmares’ on Audioboo

Hey y'all. We had a very nice spring break but I am now way rusty and NaPoWriMo snuck up on me. This is my first time participating and I think that this is not quite finished but it is a start. The prompt was to use a first line from another poem. I tried to write one with the first line from Dreadful by Shel Silverstein but, I kept reciting it in my head, so I went to The Writer's Almanac. I used the first line from The Neighbors by Jack Ridl. I hope I can do a poem a day...you may see a lot of cinquains. I'll catch up with reading comments and responding as the week progresses. Thanks for stopping by!

Vacation

Hey Y'all!

I found my netbook last week, but since my sweetie-pies may have had a hand in it being misplaced (hidden), I took an unscheduled break last week to spend more time with them.  I am taking them to go build very cold sandcastles at the beach this week for spring break. (It's like a deep south version of playing in the snow, right?)  Thanks for stopping by and I will return comments and visits when I get back.

heidi

FWF Submission: Six Years Was Way Too Long

Kellie Elmore's Free Write Friday

Six Years Was Way Too Long

Once I dated a guy
who really did try by and by
to act like he owned me
and hide he was lonely
Until finally I was able to fly.

heidi
written 3/15/13 for Kellie Elmore's Free Write Friday

listen to ‘Six Years Was Way Too Long’ on Audioboo

Hmmmm, well at least it's not a cinquain, which is what it tried to originally be. Kellie's Free Write prompt gives you a prompt and then you just sit, open your mind, and write, and see what happens. This week's prompt is the picture above. So, what we have is my fist attempt at a Limerick. But I don't know how I feel about it. A Limerick is supposed to be witty...I did not achieve witty (although I did look up "witty" just to make sure.) I think that I need to work up some more courage if I am going to out others in my writing. I do love this prompt, though. Maybe I'll come back again. I am going to post this, even though I feel ambivalent about it, because...well...it's my blog and I wanna. And look- it's not a cinquain, and I haven't retold a movie, TV show, fairy tale, or a mutilation of  Queen. Yay me!

3WW Submission: Cinquain for a Hologram

Cinquain for a Hologram

Careful
Rimmer, that  "H"
isn't for hug. Mistake
that drive plate for fixed and your a
smeghead.

heidi
written 3/15/13 for 3WW
This week's words: Careful, Hug, Mistake

listen to ‘Cinquain for a Hologram’ on Audioboo

Someone stop me before I retell again!. I have been on a cinquain kick, and a retelling other stories kick, and here I've done both.  I have noticed that it seems to help me keep writing and not burn out. Maybe I should limit myself to only one retelling a week at the most. Maybe I should also cut down on the Netflix (although maybe it's too late for that.) Finally, for those of you who don't recognize it, this is about Arnold Rimmer, BSC, SSC of the Jupiter Mining Corp. Ship, Red Dwarf. If you have never seen Red Dwarf, go watch it now, and you're welcome!

dverse Form for All: Pi Day

Pi Day
Today
Fooled me when
I wanted apple pie.
What I got was three point one four.
Math sucks!
heidi
written 3/14/13 for dVerse Form For All

listen to ‘Pi Day’ on Audioboo

I have lost my netbook, which means that I am writing this on my phone. So thank you Tony for the prompt for a cinquain! I've been practicing these, and I think I am still writing prose rather than poetry. Oh well, it'll click sooner or later. I write another cinquain in response to the prompt that  is more prosey, but I'll save that for another day. Now let's see if I can link this baby. (and if y'all see my computer around, please tell it to come back home)