POETRY FOR 30 DAYS IN APRIL DAY 5

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 5 Prompt This prompt challenges you to find a poem, and then write a new poem that has the shape of the original, and in which every line starts with the first letter of the corresponding line in the original poem. If I used Roethke’s poem as my model, for example, the first line would start with “I,” the second line with “W,” and the third line with “A.” And I would try to make all my lines neither super-short nor overlong, but have about ten syllables. I would also have my poem take the form of four, seven-line stanzas. I have found this prompt particularly inspiring when I use a base poem that mixes long and short lines, or stanzas of different lengths. Any poem will do as a jumping-off point, but if you’re having trouble finding one, perhaps you might consider Mary Szybist’s “We Think We Do Not Have Medieval Eyes” or for something shorter, Natalie Shapero’s “Pennsylvania.” The Poem I used was found in Poetry Magazine Feb 2021 issue. It was by Stella Wong "The Hindenburg Mystery". I randomly chose one of the magazines I hadn't read yet them thumbed through the magazine three times and stopped on this poem. I left it up to the universe and the universe always provides what we need when we need it. Day 5 Poem The Father I Mean To Be   My example provided me with a photo negative Because I used to think he didn’t know better   And does this excuse his example Benefactor of his own abuses   Any time I want to know what not to do Accessing the memories   Instant recollection provides the answer Beatings and badgering for bad behavior   Are not what I want to pass on Accepting my faults and my lack of knowledge   Instituting controls on my anger Never punish while upset   My offspring will have their own guideposts Positive exposures   Will lead them to raise their own Healthier than I have raised them   Beautiful memories is what I wish upon them From this battered soul   Heaven truly is A smile on their lips that lasts past my lifetime   Father, why have I had to remove you Parenting is not a contact sport   Wishing for the perfect family Always leaves me shivering on the floor   And the day I stopped trying to Appease you, appeal to you   & started this journey alone, with my family That is when I broke the cycle   Truly began loving my family In ways that maybe you wished you could   It would have been great if you were a strong man to have shown the way 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