We’re a week into the challenge now, and we get to celebrate with our first “Two-for-Tuesday” prompt! You can pick your favorite prompt, do both separately, or combine them into one poem. Your choice.
For today’s prompt:
- Write a lucky poem and/or…
- Write an unlucky poem.
Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have the freedom to jump in any direction you want. In other words, it’s more important to write a new poem than to stick to the prompt.
Lucky/ unlucky
ReplyDeletelucky in love
good fortune in life
my plight a flight
through eternity with
fathomless gratification
ever grateful
for trees and birds and
a world filled
with beauty
I’m in awe
of my existence
and happy I’m alive
unlucky in nothing
my life is a charm
I don’t take
it for granted
I know what it is
oh, my karma
is sacred and blessed
Yes, It is and
I’ve come through
death’s door
drawing my last
more than once...
I love it that you did both prompts in one poem. I love the ending. "drawing my last / more than once." Awesome.
DeleteI agree. Powerful ending.
DeleteNice poem, and well said.
DeleteI haven't been inspired so I'm sticking with a cinquain. I'll do better tomorrow, I promise.
ReplyDeleteThis poem
is unlucky.
The poet is also.
Don't touch them with a 10-foot-pole.
Stay safe.
Nice poem and nice, the visual play, the 6-syllable line so short and the 8-syllable line so long.
DeleteCar
ReplyDeleteskidding
on the slick road
narrowly missing a crash
into the innocent car.
Snow
and ice
are dangerous.
I added balding tires, poor
planning and a camaro!
Luck!
Spun out
in slow motion
stopping safely but reversed
like a planned stunt like action.
Safe!
What now?
Get off the road!
Humbly appreciate luck.
Grateful to get home safely.
Your format seems to be very much the same for all your poems. Is it a particular form? I had a similar experience and I wasn't driving. I just closed my eyes and waited for death. When we stopped and I opened them we had slid across the median and were pointing at oncoming traffic about an inch from the actual road.
DeleteYes. As you know I previously mentioned I felt I needed a structure to avoid sounding like Dr Seuss. Being unfamiliar with recognized poetry patterns, I chose one to follow.
DeleteIt is simply my zip code. Lol
12477
One syllable
Two syllables
Four syllables
Seven syllables
Seven syllables
It has been fun. I was wondering if someone would notice.
I too had noticed and wondered at its consistency and if it was just your style.Something like your poem describes happened to me once too. Scary! You told it well.
DeleteI noticed too, and I like the form. I like the way it allows the poem to develop, and I like the way use it in a several-stanza poem. It creates a wonderful rhythm.
DeleteLessons
ReplyDeleteLucky am I,
Though I've never
won the lottery
not once. Yet
The so called
wheel of fortune
has spun
and brought me
abundance--
for which
I am eternally
grateful
in the extreme.
Beware forgetting
To be grateful,
for thereby you may
become unlucky
in order that you may
become grateful
for each and every
blessing, great or small.
I especially like the last stanza.
DeleteThanks, Tad.
DeleteI usually don't like "reverse wording" but "Lucky am I" works here. Like you're singing and skipping.
DeleteLUCKY-UNLUCKY OR BLESSING BE
ReplyDeleteLucky...unlucky depends upon
Which side of the fence you fall upon.
Is the contact with ground hard or soft?
Is the the landing low, or is it loft?
Is it soft because freshly tilled?
Is it softly covered in fresh manure?
Is it hard, though ground is nigh?
Is it hard with nothing but sky?
Did you learn by luck which way to fall?
Did you learn that luck is simply your call?
Lucky-unlucky is paradigm
A judgement call, because of time.
I say blessed is more the sane,
With blessings counted, none’s to blame.
‘Ere Pathways clear or brambled thorn.
In all things know, life can be torn.
Void of luck, blessings be, impart
Wisdom, strength, and growing heart!
This is good. I like the way you develop it. Reminds me of W. H. Davies. What happened to the rhyme in the third stanza?
DeleteGood development of the theme.
DeleteYes, lucky and unlucky are open to interpretation. And yeah, every couplet rhymes except the 3rd one.
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