Dear News: Three Sept*
Once
I dreamed
of writing,
seeing my name
in front of
daily
news.
As
I read
chaotic
election, war,
I can’t help
but just
sigh.
My
dream snapped
like tulip
killed by winter.
Dear news, I
once loved
you.
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©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved.
Photo credit: Sergey Zolkin
In response to Daily Post: Snap and Napowrimo Day 16.
Today, I challenge you to fill out, in no more than five minutes, the following “Almanac Questionnaire,” which solicits concrete details about a specific place (real or imagined). Then write a poem incorporating or based on one or more of your answers.
Almanac Questionnaire:
Weather: Winter
Flora: Tulip
Architecture: Cave
Customs: Giving
Mammals/reptiles/fish: Rabbit
Childhood dream: Writing
Found on the Street: Cars
Export: Fruits
Graffiti: Bold
Lover: Dear
Conspiracy: Politics
Dress: Skirt
Hometown memory: Streams
Notable person: Mitch Albom
Outside your window, you find: Hummingbirds
Today’s news headline: Election
Scrap from a letter: I once loved you.
Animal from a myth: Phoenix
Story read to children at night: David and Goliath
You walk three minutes down an alley and you find: Trash
You walk to the border and hear: Jason Mraz and Sara Bareilles
What you fear: Dead
Picture on your city’s postcard: Buildings
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*Sept
The Sept is a simple invented form patterned after the number 7.
The Sept is:
- a heptastich, a poem in 7 lines.
- syllabic, 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 syllables in each line.
- unrhymed.
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Read more of my Napowrimo 2016 poems here!
Aw, I understand the disappoint. I used to dream the same thing, but seeing the news is heartbreaking. You did justice with the prompt.
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Hi Ameena! Thank you for reading. 🙂 The prompt’s a bit tough. Glad to know you like my poem and that we share the same dream. 🙂
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Amazing, Rosema! I miss joining the prompt challenges!!! 🙂
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Thank you Debbie! 😀 (That’s your real name, right? ) I actually missed reading your write-ups too. ❤ The stories and poems you perfectly do. 🙂
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I will give more time to it soon! 🙂
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yay! that’s right. Go for your wedding first. 😀
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Wonderful Ameena! The news is truly heartbreaking anymore.
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Thank you, PJ! It really is… humans seem to love killing each other nowadays. 😦
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Yes, sadly, that is true! When will it ever stop? **sigh**
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I don’t know. *sigh*
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Wonderful poem incorporating the questionnaire concisely. I agree with you, the news doesn’t much seem to be so good the majority of the time. “No news is good news.” Sorry for the lost dreams.
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Well that is somehow true, Mandi. No news is good news. 🙂 Thank you! ❤
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aw, sorry news’ ugliness broke that love.
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yeah… it’s like crimes are getting more morbid. -_-
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agreed 😦
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yeah…. they make you stop reading news..
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I stopped reading that long ago.
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Oh. I want to but I cant. Part of job, er.
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I understand 😦
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-_-
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So true! I feel you. We rarely have good news in the papers these days. *sigh*
P.S. I think you meant ‘once’ in your second to the last line. Happy day, Rosema! ❤ 🙂
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Thank you for noticing that, Maria! My eyes getting a bit blurry, eh? 😀
Thank you very much! that is true… good news… where are you?
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You’re most welcome, Rosema. ^^
Hmm.. I just got back in Cebu. Too short vacay. Hayy..
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yeah.. only weekend right?? -_-
How was it? You went to the beach????
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Totally agree! I hesitate to read the papers or watch the NEWS on TV. It’s just sad and makes you even sadder. But I do hope, someday we all get to read your lovely writings in a newspaper. That will definitely be good news and well, who wouldn’t want to read that?! 🙂 ❤
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Geez! This comment made my day. It’s a really far-flung dream, NJ. But thank you!
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You’ll achieve it. Someday soon 🙂 ❤
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YAY! Thank you very much, NJ!
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An impressively crafted response to a complicated prompt! Good work, you!
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Indeed complicated, Christopher! Thank you very much!
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Thank you!!! ❤❤❤
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