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Good morning, afternoon, evening, or whatever. Poetry is why we're here, so let's get to it!
Today's prompt from NaPoWriMo asks participants to "find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you’ve never previously read – and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take out some words. Make your own poem out of it!"
I hit the pause button on the April PAD prompt again because this was a big undertaking! After reading my resulting poem, the potential first publisher may wish the undertaker would come for me. Meh, it's not my problem if some people cannot recognize greatness!
Anyway, here are your Emily Dickinson resources, including links to the poems I abused...I mean, gleaned inspiration from.
I hope Emily might appreciate my resulting poem. I dedicated it to her.
I once knew a family where both the husband and wife were related to Emily Dickinson in one way or another. Don't ask me to try and remember how. The husband and my father both taught at the same college, and this is where I knew them from. Since those days, Death has kindly stopped for all of them, including my father.
I've been a right mess this week. I think I may finally be getting back to abnormal. I'll probably feel better after a little breakfast.
~Ornery Owl Has spoken~
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I was listening to this great 1978 Japanese jazz album while creating the post. Enjoy!
