POETRY FOR 30 DAYS IN APRIL DAY 30

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 30 Prompt And now for our final (still optional!) prompt. Today’s prompt is based on a prompt written by Jacqueline Saphra, and featured in this group of prompts published back in 2015 by The Poetry Society of the U.K. This prompt challenges you to write a poem in the form of a series of directions describing how a person should get to a particular place. It could be a real place, like your local park, or an imaginary or unreal place, like “the bottom of your heart,” or “where missing socks go.” Fill your poem with sensory details, and make them as wild or intimate as you like. Day 30 Poem Where is Sanity I zigged when I should have zagged The map I used was from three hundred years ago And the gas station I picked it up in still sold leaded gas So when I left the station, my car coughed tremendously Like a tuberculosis patient waiting for their next treatment I tried to phone a friend when I grew up And started this journey of adulthood Only to find out She was a paranoid schizophrenic That liked to chase her kids around the house With knives drawn Thinking we were spawned from the anti christ Which turned out to be her husband I tried talking with a man of so many letters The alphabet couldn’t keep up And as I talked with him, His phone blew up with messages and calls He didn’t hear a word I said And decided I needed pills So I pretended not to hear him Or when the pharmacy called All I am trying to do is get from where I was To where you are In hopes that you know the way I tried people with smaller letters behind their names One used my connections to get a better job Another used my knowledge to help her clients dodge dui’s So now I am looking at another person With smaller letters behind their name When I asked my doc where my motivation went He sent me to CVS for a pick up I’m wondering if he is going to be my dealer now He didn’t give me a free sample Aren’t you supposed to get the first hit for free Think I’ll just lay back And see if there are any hidden messages In the vinyl records I play That would lead me to where I want to go Maybe there is something in the flat earthers podcast Or in the teachings of Q’Anon My brain isn’t that fried yet I think its time for a little Tom Waits Or maybe some Trane They have kept me alive all these years Maybe the deep bass whisperings of Ken Nordine Or the absurdist stories of Joe Frank I think I may have not listened close enough To my dead heroes And I may just need to reconnect that link If you know the way to sanity I’d ask that you not try to send it telepathically The quickest way is not a straight line I know that from my experiences with cartography Just point me in the general direction And let me know if there is a coffee shop along the way I may need to fuel up 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