POETRY FOR 30 DAYS IN APRIL DAY 19

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 19 Prompt And last but not least, our prompt (optional, as always). Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a humorous rant. In this poem, you may excoriate to your heart’s content all the things that get on your nerves. Perhaps it’s people who tailgate when driving, or don’t put the caps back on pens after they use them. Or the raccoons who get into your garbage cans. For inspiration, perhaps you might look to this list of Shakespearean insults. Or, for all of you who grew up on cartoons from the 1980s, perhaps this compendium of Skeletor’s Best Insults might provide some insight. Day 19 Poem Blindspot You are unfit for anyplace except hell As I try to quickly and carefully Get from my home to my destination You believe the best place to drive Is just behind me enough To where I cannot see you You think that this a game Like the one you are playing on your phone As we are going down the highway At 70 miles per hour Maybe you have misread the drivers handbook And think that if I hit your car And the front end is damaged I am somehow to blame But its actually the reverse I have no wish to crash into you And I like to make myself very visible and obvious Hench why I signal turns even in my neighborhood My nephew has said I drive like an old man Who has a trailer attached With recliners that have heat and vibrating controls And seated in those recliners are pink lawn flamingoes Enjoying the drive, enjoying being alive So I do ask for a little room on the road we share And I do mean the word share Because either we both own a piece of it Or none of us owns a scratch of it Either way, either drive side by side Or in front or behind But stay away from the blind spot Lest you risk being blindsided 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