Over on the Writer’s Digest site today’s prompt is to write a plus poem. Took a little while to figure out an angle for this, but here’s my first draft of a plus poem:
We Live in a Plus World
This is a plus world, supersize, maximize,
for just dollars plus get the combo.
Google +, and if you google plus,
the onslaught of more-thans gives you six
billion plus hits in less than
point two zero seconds.
There’s Med Plus and Pet Plus,
there’s a plus for mature adults.
Plus a Canadian government language plus
for terminology and linguistics, even Wiley Plus
which might be a surfeit of coyotes
chasing a plus-itude of roadrunners.
They never say plus what’s the plus,
it’s mostly minus that fine detail.
One thing you know: you could spend
hours plus trying to track it down.
And for the NaPoWriMo prompt to write a cinquain, there is this one:
Spring, Teasing
Today
out my window
sun in a warm blue sky
the bite of wind hides behind glass
outside.
Carol A. Stephen
April 5, 2013
Carol A. Stephen
April 5, 2013
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Thanks for the pingback, Carol.
you are most welcome!
I do prefer the first poem, wonderfully written and a fantastic original feel.
Well done on managing the cinquain.
Thanks! The cinquain was tough! I tend to be lazy about counting stresses. Hard to have so few syllables to work with as well.
But it was so small and lonely by itself, so I decided to tack it on at the end of the Plus poem. Thanks for commenting!
My pleasure, and thank you for popping across to my site and liking ‘My Grandfather’.
Very nice. I love the name of your blog, too.
Thanks! and Welcome!