#NaPoWriMo Day 8
This was a real challenge! The complicated prompt is given below my poem. Anyway... Here it is! Enjoy! 😂
The night was black as tar,
My gloveless fingers frozen to my sword.
I fell.
With taste of iron and sound of splintered ice my head thudded against rock.
I watched the wolves move closer,
Their breath the fragrance of death metal music.
I know you Fenrir of Thrudheim.
The full moon reveals my beautiful friend... my buddy!
You make the sun shine.
Velkommen!
The shaggy beast of freedom.
Teeth bared in a fierce smile.
You lift me as you leap into the sky.
You're going to carry the warrior maiden home.
To her ungodly parents.
We are all Gods!
Takk min venn.
Fenrir bowed low.
The scent of heavy metal filled the air.
The prompt is called the “Twenty Little Poetry Projects,” and was originally developed by Jim Simmerman. And here are the twenty little projects themselves — the challenge is to use them all in one poem:
1. Begin the poem with a metaphor.
2. Say something specific but utterly preposterous.
3. Use at least one image for each of the five senses, either in succession or scattered randomly throughout the poem.
4. Use one example of synesthesia (mixing the senses).
5. Use the proper name of a person and the proper name of a place.
6. Contradict something you said earlier in the poem.
7. Change direction or digress from the last thing you said.
8. Use a word (slang?) you’ve never seen in a poem.
9. Use an example of false cause-effect logic.
10. Use a piece of talk you’ve actually heard (preferably in dialect and/or which you don’t understand).
11. Create a metaphor using the following construction: “The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun) . . .”
12. Use an image in such a way as to reverse its usual associative qualities.
13. Make the persona or character in the poem do something he or she could not do in “real life.”
14. Refer to yourself by nickname and in the third person.
15. Write in the future tense, such that part of the poem seems to be a prediction.
16. Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective.
17. Make a declarative assertion that sounds convincing but that finally makes no sense.
18. Use a phrase from a language other than English.
19. Make a non-human object say or do something human (personification).
20. Close the poem with a vivid image that makes no statement, but that “echoes” an image from earlier in the poem.
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