November PAD Challenge 2022: Day 23 1/2: Family Dinner

 

Picture info follows the poem

simmering in my own stew

on this Thanksgiving day

I think about the way

my family of origin

served up problems at the table

an unpalatable side dish

promoting indigestion

no wonder my son never enjoyed

visiting my family for dinner

I was so used to the tension

I didn't think much about it

"So what did you do today, Failed Daughter?"

"I quit my job at the casino."

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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notes and prompts used

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-13

Prompt: Write an Ekphrastic poem.

The selected image:

Evening, Melancholy I

1896

Edvard Munch

(Norwegian, 1863–1944)

Norway

Woodcut hand colored with watercolor

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.82

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-23

Prompt:

Write a family poem.

My family of origin had a lovely habit of discussing problems at the dinner table.

https://imprompt.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/day-24/

Go to the last poem (or flash or whatever your thing is) that you wrote.

Use the last line of it as your first line today. 

OR

Use the first line as your last line. (Seven lines minimum.)

If you are feeling particularly masochistic, start with the end AND end with the beginning. 

I was feeling particularly masochistic.

Today's poetry soundtrack:

https://odysee.com/@GamingAmbience:6/deus-ex-mankind-divided-prague-%C4%8Dist%C3%A1-2:8?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

https://odysee.com/@GamingAmbience:6/deus-ex-mankind-divided-%C4%8Dist%C3%A1-district:c?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

My Family Skeletons

When my grandpappy died in his palace

We'd no sooner raised up the chalice

When such an uproar arose

 With shocking secrets exposed

It rivaled Dynasty and Dallas

~Cie~

Note:

The truth might not quite have rivaled Dynasty and Dallas, but after my paternal grandfather died, there was a lot of contention between my father and my grandfather's second wife (both RIP) and some unattractive skeletons emerged from a few closets.