Poetry Prompts and Inspiration Day 16 April PAD Challenge and NaPoWriMo 2023

 

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A good whatever time of day it is for you, Poetry People. It has certainly been volatile in this little space during the past few sessions. You never know exactly what you're going to get around here. Will it be the sage wisdom of Ornery Owl? Will it be the feminist outrage of Sly Fawkes? Or will it perhaps be something like the above?

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-16

The Writers Digest prompt for today asks participants to write a Blank of the Blank poem.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-10/

The NaPoWriMo prompt asks participants to use their poems to describe what something isn't.

To make a long story short, my poem is called Witch of the Prairie, and it contains lines such as "I am not your pet" and "I will never be your girl." So, yeah, Sly snuck in there again. Sly will never rest as long as society continues giving her so much material to work with. 

Sometimes I think I'm too old to still be fighting this shit. By "this shit," I of course mean misogyny. Couldn't I just leave that battle up to younger warriors who aren't as tired as I am?

The answer is no, I cannot.

Older women are constantly informed that we're useless. We're out of touch with the times. We have nothing relevant to say. Certainly, we have no sex appeal.

I call bullshit on that crap. Older women have wisdom and experience, and we don't put up with anyone's shit. If someone tries to shame me for my lack of sex appeal, I'll laugh. I don't give a damn about sex. I've been done with that nonsense for years. Ditto caring about being perceived as attractive. 

I have more important things to concern myself with, such as learning how to turn misogynists into toads. Toads are better than mansplainers any day. 

~The Wicked Witch Has Spoken~

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Here is what I was listening to while creating this wicked post.

Carpe Diem New Beginnings: Ornery Senryu: First Sunray

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first rays of sunshine

after working the night shift

felt like a vampire

~The Ornery Old Night Owl~

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Ornery Notes:

I haven't had to work the night shift in close to three years now. But I'm still a night owl!

The night shift was always fine for me until about three or four in the morning. The last three or four hours were horrible.

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Ghost Town Grover Sez:

"I gotta tell y'all, on Halloween night in Telluride in 1880, I was whoopin' it up with some of the other miners, and when I went out behind the saloon to drain the ole rattlesnake, this pale feller with slick black hair wearin' a fancy cape come floatin' up beside me. I asked him if he wanted to come into the saloon and join me and the fellers fer a swig of Amos Fine's Famous Shine. 

That high-fallutin' feller said in a hoity-toity way that he didn't never drink Shine. Now, maybe he was jest eccentric or somethin', but when Father O'Malley come outta the saloon wearin' his big ole silver cross on a chain, that feller hissed like an angry tomcat, hollered "BLUH!", pulled his cape over his face, and turned tail and run. 

Maybe he'd bin slippin' outta the church after Sunday meetin's without tithin' proper, but there shore was somethin' weird about that fancy-pants stranger, and he shore didn't take a shine to the good Father and his shiny cross.

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Cactus Clem Sez:

"Well, Grover, I bet y'all didn't know it, but Ornery actually is a vamper. I done heard her tellin' someone all about how she got hammered on cactus juice on Saint Patrick's Day in 1992 an' ended up sleepin' on someone's bathroom floor! She ain't tried to drink the juice from my veins yet, but I'm gonna have to sleep with one eye open on St. Patrick's Day!"

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Further Ornery Notes:

Cactus Clem doesn't have anything to worry about. I really can't drink more than a few sips of beer or wine these days. But if you're feeling daring, you can click the link above and try the drink that the cute little buffalo is serving up!