For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.
Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.
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THE SPRING TREE
is filled with living ornaments
is the brilliant yellow of goldfinches and the rich red of house finches
is the sleek feathers of the stealthy nuthatch
is the chattering mob of bushtits that move in unison like a school of fish
is the patterned camouflage browns of female finches
is the gregarious mountain chickadees that move in close to complain about my presence
is the turning of heads at each overhead shadow, checking to ensure it isn’t death made manifest by the presence of the local sharp-shinned hawk
is all feasting on common seeds, the proffered shelled feed
is the chirps and melodies and chatters, songs that interweave into an angelic chorus made present on the soil of this kingdom
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Copyright © 2011 by Troy's Work Table
2 comments:
I like list poems, but they don't always work. This one was lovely.
Kim:
Too funny. I didn't even think of this as a list poem, although it obviously is. I just let the words fall where they wanted. When I was reworking it, it seemed to find its own shape and form and I went along with its decision.
Troy.
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