November PAD Challenge 2022: Day 16: The Ornery Author's Curse

 

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

the panel have said

we're here in your head

judging your every creation

from where we stand

you're overplaying your hand

trying to move beyond your low station

don't try to be clever

nay, we say never!

best not to have anticipation

of things getting better

for just like wet weather

too much praise begets degradation

don't deviate from the plot

indeed, we say not!

the script is key to communication

your subplots and such 

are a touch and then some too much

you plant roses when we ask for carnations

too much pie in the sky

gets you higher than high

you are a scandal, not a sensation

'Listen here, Man

I tried your plan

I worked to overcome my deviation.'

I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe;

Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,   

Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.   

Riffing off William Butler Yeats

I left that stodgy court post-haste

giving not a fig about literary damnation

if I can't strike while the iron's hot

the story goes cold

I lose the plot

I'll write what tickles my fancy

although the panel may deem it too chancy

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

O is for "Oh wow, its Ornery Owl!"

notes and prompts used

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-16

Prompt: Write a panel poem. 

Mission accomplished!

https://imprompt.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/day-9-2/

Inspired by the prompt, I shamelessly ripped off this verse from Adam's Curse by William Butler Yeats.

I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe;

Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,   

Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43285/adams-curse

Here's some cool background music from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Here's the link in case you can't see the player.

https://odysee.com/@GamingAmbience:6/deus-ex-mankind-divided-desperate-2:f?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16