Greetings Poetic types and welcome to the sixth day of the April PAD Challenge/NaPoWriMo for 2022. I've provided today's poetry soundtrack, including a link in case you can't see the embedded player.
I had a bout of stronger than usual depression yesterday. Today's poem, Pain in the Soul, discusses my tendency towards spring depression, something that very few people seem to understand even though statistically April is the cruelest month. More people commit suicide in April than during the winter holidays. Two days from now will be the thirty-first anniversary of the suicide of a very troubled and quite unforgettable person.
Pain in the Soul
Prompts Used
Write a blank in the blank poem
Write a variation of an acrostic poem. Rather than spelling out a word with the first letters of each line, write a poem that reproduces a phrase with the first words of each line.
I used my own Haiku, Spring Awakens, as the basis for the acrostic.
The results of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge are in. I didn't win and didn't expect to. I don't think my poetry is quite the host's cup of tea, but I'll keep creating chapbooks anyway, which I will later self-publish because I'm an asshole like that.
Days like this I wish I had someone I could pour out the grim and frostbitten contents of my cold black heart to, but I don't and I won't so there's fuck-all use of getting my hopes up for something that isn't going to happen. I know better these days.
~Ornery Owl Has Hooted Into the Void~
Image by Lenka Novotná from Pixabay
My extended family is suffering the aftershock of a suicide on New Year's Day ... they understand the 'forever' pain. Wishing you well.
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