This month each day’s study of contradictory abstract nouns has been synonyms of my personal Big Five contradictory abstract nouns. These last five days are the Big Five. Today I’m out to capture the creativity in actuality and the actuality in creativity. I reviewed its synonyms on the third: artistry and incapacity; the eighth: imagination and reality; the thirteenth: genius and ignorance; the eighteenth: ingenuity and materiality; and the twenty-third: originality and fact.
I find it interesting that on the majority of these days I focused on clear plastic filters. Today I compared two of my new plastic filter techniques. I colored two filters with similar patterns and cut a shape out of one, then I cut the same shape out of foil and put it on the other.
2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 28
Today is two for Tuesday.
- Write a seize the day poem, or…
- Write a survive the day poem.
For the Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Merril invites us to celebrate #GivingTuesday by writing a giving poem.
This Day of Giving I. Glad to be of service I like to feel appreciated Valued for my skills Indeed you honor me Needing me to help, but Good deeds never go unpunished II. Gifts are always awkward Inventions of disappointment Voluntary expense and risk Imagining creating happiness Never the actual dismissal Guard your heart III. Generosity is vulnerability Interrupted selfishness Visualized understanding Imagined empathy Negating actuality Go. Click the button. Feel Good.
Experience Writing 
You see through the facade, how we strive and miss the mark despite our best intentions, our giving is not always well received, and our receiving of help/gifts is not always gracious.
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Giving and receiving must be approached gracefully. Like your perspective here.
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Thank you.
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I think we always overestimate giving… it’s never easy to receive.
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Thought-provoking on the nature of giving – good response to the prompt…
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Thank you.
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Gifts are always awkward
Inventions of disappointment
Very interesting insight.
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Thank you. I’m glad you think so.
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You are welcome!
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“ Gifts are always awkward
Inventions of disappointment
Voluntary expense and risk”
Love these lines.
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Thank you.
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Three very different takes on giving! Thank you so much for writing to the prompt. I had to change my comment from red.
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Thanks for letting me know. I always reply to comments from my WordPress home page, so I had no idea the text was red in the reply box.
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And why doesn’t it know who I am on my own page?
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It was very odd. I don’t know if everyone would know how to change it in the blocks, but that red was bothering me. 🙂
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I love your use of contradiction in this poem. Where did you get that other challenge about the seize the day/survive the day poem?
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Thank you. If you click on my section heading, it links to it. It’s the Writer’s Digest November Poem a Day Chapbook Challenge.
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