For today’s prompt, write a doodle poem. In my mind, I’m thinking of how I like to doodle when I’m talking on the phone or sitting in a meeting. I used to doodle in my classes when I was younger. So for a poem, I’m thinking this could start off as something small that stays small or builds to epic proportions. Doodle around a bit today. If needed, start by describing something close at hand or within your current field of vision.
DOODLES
ReplyDeletea pantoum
She doodles in her notebook.
Math class goes on around her,
lessons unnoticed, unlearned,
looks like she's taking notes.
Math class goes on around her.
Entwined initials spiral,
look like she's taking notes
roses grow in the margins.
Entwined initials spiral,
unlashed eyes shed dagger tears,
roses grow in the margins,
doodles cover every inch.
Unlashed eyes shed dagger tears.
Teacher explains slope of lines.
Doodles cover every inch.
Her grades have negative slope.
Teacher explains slope of lines.
She want art class, wants to paint.
Her grades have negative slope,
graded on what she can't do.
She want art class, wants to paint.
Lessons unnoticed, unlearned,
graded on what she cannot do,
she doodles in her notebook.
terrific doodle pantoum! I could picture the girls notebook. I've seen notebooks like that!! Good job.
DeleteYou have yet again captured a classroom situation with sympathetic grace!!! I so admire pantoums, from afar though as I have never managed to write one. Well not yet anyway. You make me want to try it !
Deletethis was me in high school... math was beyond me and I wanted to be in English class - especially when studying poetry - and yes I filled my papers with doodles. you really set the scene with this one.
DeleteLinda Doodles all the Day by Linda Rivas Bole
ReplyDeleteThe detangler hair brush
sits upon my desk
even Damien uses it; he's one
He's Breanne's son
I use it on my own hair
when it's tangled and a mess
there's other assorted junk
laying on my desk
that belongs somewhere else, I guess
A roll of duct tape, don't even ask
a spool of white thread
two notebooks, that I work in
and bills, bills, bills
pens galore and scissors, of course
a bunch of rubber bands
and my glasses
some tweezers and a thermometer
I was sick last week
I'll put it all away, someday
I say with tongue in cheek...
LOL. Great list poem though I'm not quite sure where the doodling is.
DeleteThe poem is doodling...
DeleteAh! Okay now it makes sense.
DeleteA roll of duct tape is essential. :) I like the whimsey of word doodling instead of picking up the stuff.
Deletelol! yep! doodling a poem... what fun!
DeleteI'm calling this one a doodle poem - I saw a memo on Facebook and doodled around with it!
ReplyDeletePotato Poem, with Salt
It is written on the Internet
(and therefore must be true)
that everything in the world
is either a potato or not a potato.
It’s a simply binary: white or sweet,
Idaho, Maine or Yukon gold, fingerling
or red bliss – all potatoes under their skins.
Radishes, broccoli, and beets, are not.
Some abominations call themselves
potatoes: instant , freeze-dried, even
synthetic flavored chips make the cut.
Rice, though white and starchy, is no potato.
A potato is a potato whether boiled,
baked or fried, mayonnaised in a salad
or served au gratin. Macaroni salad
can only wish it made the grade.
But what to do about yams? Cousins
to sweet potatoes, they try to climb
on board the potato train. But if we let
the yams in, must we accept all monocots?
And what of vodka, that joy juice,
gift from the potato gods,
that turns our brains to mash?
Just drink enough and we won’t care!
©Priscilla Anne Tennant Herrington
I like this interesting take on potatoes. I once had a cookbook of potato recipes, and loved it. I got it to review, and found the author to be a delight. Small potatoes to Great Big, and a happy mash to you!
DeleteYou doodled your poem like I did. I think MASH to you!!!
DeleteLove it! Somehow it reminded me of the winter Bonnie and I were sharing an apt. and bought a 50 lb bag of potatoes cheap and basically lived on them all winter.
DeleteThe tyranty of the category! Let in the sweet orange ones fer pity sake! Have to go look up Monocot.... dang
Deletethis had me chuckling as it doodled and undoodled (not a word I know) with such fun! and omg! Victoria I had forgotten all about that 50 lb bag of potatoes! lmbo!
DeleteDoodle de doodle de doodle de doo
ReplyDeleteif I am I, and you are you,
then there's a we between us too...
Doodle de doodle de doodle de doo
This is my doodle, now how about you?
I got a chuckle out of this one Tasha!! Thanks, I needed a great big smile and a chuckle!!! Good job!
DeleteI feel like the next line should be "I am the walrus." LOL
Deletekoo koo kachu!
DeleteI really like this one! So simple - and yet, not so much so.
DeletePriscilla
I wish there was a like button on here! A fun poem and I agree with Victoria and Abigail on the next two lines - perfect
Deleteand cock-a-doodle-do to you :-)
DeleteScribbling A Life
ReplyDeleteA curvy thingy here
a figure eight there
a thin line a thick line
some wavy stuff crossing a page
little dots underneath
dots and xs
switch pens
another envelope
the cover of a magazine
next to the comics in the daily paper
make transparent boxes 3D
climb out of them
with flowers
with shooting stars
and that is how a professional doodler doodles! love it!
DeleteSorry I'm late! I caught the crud :(
ReplyDeleteFair warning, this is nearly sacrilegious.
Three crosses penciled in,
hills of crayon.
It is good.
Paper sins nailed to wooden crosses,
It is good.
Bleeding human nailed to a wooden cross,
for me?
It is good?
You and I--
we held blindly,
not thinking,
reading,
reasoning.
Then, death took you.
I began thinking,
reading,
reasoning,
questioning.
curled in my notebook,
pencil crosses
wow! awesome and powerful!
DeleteMost of us here are much more sacrilegious than this. LOL. I love "Paper sins nailed to wooden crosses."
ReplyDeleteGood poem. Love the question rather than the usual statement "It is good?" Isn't it hard to tell most of the time!
DeleteThere are certain letters I love to doodle
ReplyDeletethe letter L is a favorite written in cursive
surrounded by flowers,birds or a poodle
perhaps doodles are somewhat subversive