It’s the very first day of National Poetry Writing Month and the prompt is to “derange” myself, make the world strange and see it as a stranger.
This could tie in nicely with the April PAD Challenge prompt: write an introduction poem. As part of my poem, I could introduce a stranger: create a persona and see the world through his or her eyes.
Over on the A to Z Challenge blog they came up with a Scavenger Hunt for the month. What a fun idea. For the A to Z challenge my Janus word is adumbrate which can mean both to disclose and to obscure.
This prompt may call for some new bokeh filters.
Breeding Fruit Flies with Two Different Eyes
An impression arrests the fruit flies in kitchen sinks full of ideas
frozen in mid-irritation, fleeting yet multiplying before your eyes
what indelible marks will topple to the tongue
and adumbrate the growing clutch
Contentment empties the glue of flavor and steals the scissors of artistry
the constant irritation and insatiable hunger
–of those fruit flies, feeding in the sinks–
sketch an impression of furious flight
Refreshment wriggles among the moles under the tent of solitude
having vacated the house with the ideas, but left the kitchen sink to the fruit flies
the dark, fresh-earth tunnels adumbrate new and curious spaces for contemplation
where crawling, not seeing, may nourish new understanding
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Refreshment wriggles among the moles under the tent of solitude
having vacated the house with the ideas, but left the kitchen sink to the fruit flies
the dark, fresh-earth tunnels adumbrate new and curious spaces for contemplation
where crawling, not seeing, may nourish new understanding
I loved these lines, Maria.
https://musenpoetry.blogspot.com/2021/04/new-horizons-napowrimo-day-1.html
So glad you liked it.
What arresting imagery in this one. “Refreshment wriggles among the moles under the tent of solitude…” I love that phrase moles under the tent of solitude. Nice.
Thank you.
“An impression arrests the fruit flies in kitchen sinks full of ideas
frozen in mid-irritation, fleeting yet multiplying before your eyes”
Arresting opening lines and then it flows… beautiful, Maria. Such clarity. Your images are awesome too.
Deepa
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Wow, Maria.
Your command of words stuns me. Your poem is a painting.
<3
David
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Curious segue from fruit flies to moles! “Contentment steals the …..scissors of artistry”. An evocative line.
Your poem is so wonderful surreal and real at the same time, Maria! I’ve watched fruit flies in the kitchen sink before and they are strangely mesmerising, as is your poem. I like the thought of ‘ideas frozen in mid-irritation’ – I’ve had a few of them – and the phrase ‘indelible marks will topple to the tongue’. But oh, the lines:
‘Refreshment wriggles among the moles under the tent of solitude
having vacated the house with the ideas, but left the kitchen sink to the fruit flies’.
So glad you enjoyed it.
I especially like the cadence and sound of this line:
“what indelible marks will topple to the tongue”
Thank you.
I was not familiar with that word. What an interesting write!
“Contentment empties the glue of flavor and steals the scissors of artistry,” this is excellent, excellent wordsmithing! 💝💝
Thank you.
Amazing write!
Thank you.