POETRY FOR 30 DAYS IN APRIL DAY 18

Project Details Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey? Day 18 Prompt And now for our (optional) daily prompt! This one comes to us from Stephanie Malley, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the chpaters from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. The book’s  table of contents can be viewed using Amazon’s “Look inside” feature. Will you choose “the poem squash?” or perhaps “grocery weeping” or “the blue socks”? If none of the 60 rather wonderful chapter titles here inspire you, perhaps a chapter title from a favorite book would do? For example, the photo on my personal twitter account is a shot of a chapter title from a P.G. Wodehouse novel — the chapter title being “Sensational Occurrence at a Poetry Reading.” Day 18 Poem Grocery Weeping I stand in the store Mask donned, list in hand People moving around in a frantic pace I try to maintain the prescribed distance But constantly get bumped from all sides No one is paying attention to each other Just focused on what is in stock And muttering a what they can’t find The shelves are getting more bare Each time I do the weekly shopping With more left on the list being unfilled That what I can find It takes about a month For me to sit in the car After another failed attempt To begin to cry, alone I so want to be the breadwinner for my family Be the stone they can rely on In these terrible times I look back at the diary I’ve kept And see the despair grow with each entry My wife says it will all be fine We will make sue with what is available Besides we don’t need all that meat Vegetables can be made a million ways But every trip brings less and less Its not that we don’t have the money As that is what the issue was when I was a child Watching my mother cry when the bill was too high And I had to put back the food This is different This is not supposed to be This is not the American supermarket As told to us by Ginsberg This land of plenty Has turned into a weekly battlefield of selfishness This once “great nation” has eaten away at itself No toilet paper, no precious hand sanitizer Others have hoarded it Others have followed the trucks bring in supplies And raided them while they are being unloaded Is America great yet And then one day the tide changed Something happened that the stores became better stocked We weren’t scowling at each other When we saw that person got what we could not I can’t point to the exact day All I know is that one day I wasn’t dreading the trip to the store That I actually got everything on the list I got everything and a little more And that little more turned into everything I wanted Not needed And I wonder When the next time will occur When the stores are empty When we will be at each others throats For I fear we have not learned the lessons That have been graciously given And soon we will be back at it Ramming carts into each other  Trying to loosen the others stockpiles And taking what we claim is ours In order to keep our greatness At their expense Will it be a blizzard in Texas Or a heat wave in Maine Or will the oil dry up in the middle east And we will be forced to walk again Reaching Out To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation. Email: [email protected] YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Mighty Networks: Create Art Podcast This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy