For today’s prompt, write a dead end poem. Of course, I was thinking in terms of the challenge, but a dead end can literally mean the end of a person’s life, a dead end road, a dead end job, dead end mortgage, and so on. Take the phrase “dead end” and apply it to a noun, and the possibilities are nearly endless (except, well, there’s the whole “dead end” finality to it, I suppose). I hope it’s fun and that the blog is alive and well today.
Robert Lee Brewer's original post.
Thirty days have come and gone as we reach the end
ReplyDeleteof our poetic endeavors - for one month poem a day
my final attempt to entertain I am ready to send.
hopefully my poems did not insult or offend
because of thoughts or scenarios my words did display
thirty days have come and gone as we reach the end.
was this and endeavor with no start and a sad dead end
so on day thirty and each prompt I did obey
my final attempt to entertain I am ready to send
tried to keep it smooth and let my words flow and blend
so the reader could follow what I wanted to say.
Thirty days have come and gone as we reach the end.
of shaping words to twist and and turn and bend
as we bid farewell to our poets on display
my final attempt to entertain I am ready to send.
each word was lovingly attentively penned
so at the end I will simply cheer hurray!
Thirty days have come and gone as we reach the end
my final attempt to entertain I am ready to send.
nice dead end Bonnie!!...I hope we can do this again sometime! with better prompts.
DeleteLinda, we want to continue, one a week rather than a month, and we will pick the prompts!
Deletethis was one fun month
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed it very much
it ended dead end
yes it did! fun write!
ReplyDeleteI've reached the dead end,
ReplyDeletefrom a thirty day wend,
more fun than I thought,
I confess I was fraught
and got too distracted
thus no poems enacted,
and despite expectations,
took too many vacations.
However I'm blest
to have done my best,
as I say without pride
for I'm glad that I tried.
Tasha Halpert
it was poetry overload at times trying to come up with poems for prompts that didn't inspire but we made it!
DeleteI didn't want to write this poem
ReplyDeletebut can't seem to write another,
each ending up at a dead end
so I guess this is the poem
that wants to be written. Dead end.
yep! that's what I calla real dead end :-)
DeleteI thought I posted this yesterday! But it wasn't there when I went and looked so I am posting it now just to finish off. Thanks for the fun ride. Tasha
ReplyDeleteI've reached the dead end,
from a thirty day wend,
more fun than I thought,
I confess I was fraught
and got too distracted
thus no poems enacted,
and despite expectations,
took too many vacations.
However I'm blest
to have done my best,
as I say without pride
for I'm glad that I tried.
No absolutely not
ReplyDeleteNo endings, dead or otherwise
are permitted in this poem
this is a living cascade
it will not stop this day
or any day to come
this life will
go on with or without me
with or without another poem
the little one celled things
will stretch and divide
and the little wavy armed things
will reach out and grab a meal
somewhere in the miniature
a future of spinning orbs
until a black hole grabs
it all, and then who knows
what happens in there?