I have not been feeling much inspiration lately. Too much television, perhaps; it makes creative focus hard to obtain and hold. End result: one poem, not so very good, based on a writing exercise I resort to when I want to write and have nothing to write about- Five Words.
Really simple rules for this exercise.
1. Get five random words - flip through a dictionary, use a random word generator, I like to draw them from a coffee cup containing the important words from two Magnetic Poetry kits (Original and Romance, if anyone wonders).
2. Pick some arbitrary rules on how those words get turned into a poem- use them to start verses, stick them in verses, jumble the order, end verses…. anything arbitrary at all, just to focus and force some kind of form.
3. Write- and this has to be done without self-reflection as it probably won’t be very good, but, in a few weeks when you look back at it, it may have a verse, or a line, worth turning into another poem.
Today’s poem is Cheek - Dinner - Frantic - Smooth - Together
I hope, as the faint aroma of
tomato and garlic waft and
get paired with wine at dinner,That the frantic beating of
my heart is not drowning out
the polite and distracted conversation.I have given up any hope
of smooth transition from
table to bedroom;Even though we’re together,
I’m ready to fall to pieces,
and I’m rather surprisedWhen you set down the wine.
A wry smile twists your cheeks.
Later, I found outYou had an agenda, too:
no- agenda is too charged a word
to describe this honest desire to share pleasure.
*** This is pretty much as I wrote it, only minimal editing for clarity and consistency. Please, always feel free to comment and let me know what you think. Or e-mail me.