November PAD Challenge 2021: How to Bake the Perfect Pecan Pie for You

 

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question and reply

how would you bake pecan pie

good enough for compliments?

I desire no insults

when I serve pecan pie to you

~ornery owl~

prompted

https://godoggocafe.com/2021/10/23/brave-recklesss-november-creativity-prompt-challenge-autumnblings/

https://dversepoets.com/2021/11/18/poetry-form-the-wayra/

Prompt: Write a Wayra

The elements of the Wayra are:

1.a pentastich, a poem in 5 lines.

2.syllabic, 5-7-7-6-8

3.unrhymed.

I know I broke the rules by rhyming my first and second lines, but it just worked so perfectly that I couldn't help myself.

https://earthweal.com/2021/11/19/earthweal-open-link-weekend-93/

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-20

Prompt: Write a Blank You poem.

Not wanting to write the obvious, I wrote about how I'm trying to bake the perfect pecan pie for your undeserving ass.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/opposing-forces-saturday-mix-20-november-2021/

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November PAD Challenge 2021: The Ghost of Thanksgiving

 

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Ornery Owl Sez: This Bop is a Bit Bleak. 

If you prefer to avoid morose verse, you have been warned.

As a child, I could look forward to the third Thursday in November

Being a time to refresh and connect, a day of quiet, untroubled play

In the home where I lived during the year that everything was almost perfect

Except for the ferocious bullying I endured at school, but so it goes

There may have been a fire burning bright in the fireplace

When we sat down at the table, I was truly thankful

For whom the bell tolls, time marches on

In current times I've found that everything has changed 

Time does not crawl, it hurtles forth like a bullet train

Crushing my memories beneath its merciless wheels

It took loved ones and ideas from me without a backward glance

There is no doorway through which I can return to that year of perfect holidays

But if I could find a filament of the hopefulness I felt

Perhaps I could sew patches over the holes in my heart

Maybe I could recall the feeling of the third Thursday in November

For whom the bell tolls, time marches on

I sit staring out the window wondering who I think I'm fooling

For decades now Thanksgiving has only been a harried mess

We usually don't even celebrate it on Thursday if we bother with it at all

It's just a day when the stores won't be open if I need something

My father believed in the promise of Thanksgiving

But he has been gone now for eleven years

For whom the bell tolls, time marches on

~ornery owl~

prompts

https://godoggocafe.com/2021/10/23/brave-recklesss-november-creativity-prompt-challenge-autumnblings/

I changed the poem's title from "The Ghost at the Table" to "The Ghost of Thanksgiving" as I thought it was a better fit.

https://dversepoets.com/2021/11/16/poetics-epiphany-in-the-time-of-holiday/

Prompt: Write a poem about an epiphany experienced regarding the holidays. 

Perhaps the child I was experienced the unfortunate epiphany that a happy holiday does not guarantee a lifetime of happiness.

Perhaps the older adult me experienced the epiphany that although the holidays can never be the same I can still make them happy if I care to.

Perhaps it's a bit of both.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-18

Prompt: Write a Thursday poem

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2021/10/octpowrimo-day-9.html

Prompt: Write a Bop poem

https://www.pw.org/content/the_bop#:~:text=The%20Bop%20is%20a%20form%20of%20poetic%20argument,or%20documents%20the%20failure%20of%20resolving%20the%20problem.

https://sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com/2021/11/whirligig-345.html

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November PAD Challenge Day 16: Skeletons at the Feast

 

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Humans marching like zombies towards the doors of extinction

Never taking the time to balance the scales

We don’t want to do anything that would inconvenience us

It is still within our power to change the end of our tales

Like vandals on Halloween, humans damage the Earth

Politicians are a species that no one can trust

It is still within our power to change the end of our tales

We don’t want to do anything that would inconvenience us

There are options before us, but still, we choose doom

Corporations enchanted by the prospect of sales

We don’t want to do anything that would inconvenience us

It is still within our power to change the end of our tales

Essential essentials and worn-out wigs

Meaningless trinkets for which humanity lusts

It is still within our power to change the end of our tales

We don’t want to do anything that would inconvenience us

~ornery owl~

Planning ahead like a mofo, I chose most of these prompts a day early!

https://godoggocafe.com/2021/10/23/brave-recklesss-november-creativity-prompt-challenge-autumnblings/

I changed the title of the poem from strangers at the feast to skeletons at the feast as I found it more fitting.

https://earthweal.com/2021/11/15/earthweal-weekly-challenge-extinction-tales/

https://amanpan.com/?p=82944

Prompt: Enchanted

https://amanpan.com/?p=81447

Prompt: Halloween

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-16

Prompt: Write a Form or Anti-Form Poem

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2021/10/octpowrimo-day-7.html

Prompt: Write a Mirrored Refrain

xaBA, xbAB, xaBA, xbAB

http://puttingmyfeetinthedirt.com

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Helloween 2021 Day 7: Ode to October

 

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A Praiseful Panegyric Poem Portrayed with Pumpkins and Prettily Penned

I have a fountain of praise for October

I don't have to think it over

golden leaves fall like money

cool breeze blows and the sun shines like honey

on all the spooky pumpkins in the patch

dreaming of becoming jack-o-lanterns

the prompts

https://thesaxophoneplayerswife.com/2021/10/05/blogtober-day-5/

Money

https://dversepoets.com/2021/10/05/poetics-exploring-the-genre-of-panegyric-poetry-come-dip-your-toes-in/

Write a Praisefully hyperbolic Panegyric poem

https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/its-six-sentence-story-thursday-link-up-180/

Fountain

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/10/weekly-scribblings-90-october.html

October

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End of the Road (Kyrielle)

 

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wander across the Universe

spilling out my accursed verse

I'm carrying my heavy load

to the end of life's winding road

lost like a child left motherless

a heavy burden in my breast

dry ground where once the river flowed

to the end of life's winding road

rolling on to the bitter end

wond'ring if any called me friend

will I walk off with debt still owed

to the end of life's winding road?

~cie~

Write a "Universe" poem

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-countdown-t-minus-4

Saturday Mix: Kyrielle

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/lucky-dip-saturday-mix-27-march-2021/

Sunday Writing Prompt: Lost

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/03/21/sunday-writing-prompt-lost-march-21st/

Sunday Writing Prompt: The End of the Road

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/03/28/sunday-writing-prompt-the-end-of-the-road-march-28th/

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/03/writers-pantry-63-i-say-and-you-say.html

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Hold Me Again

 

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I wish that it was possible

to ask you to come hold me now

to feel your kiss upon my brow

our love was once unstoppable

or at least so it seemed to me

back when you set my spirit free

I try to do what's practical

but there's no way I can forget

you were the best that I've had yet

back then our love felt tropical

but over time your heart went cold

I wish I'd never been so bold

my methods are not tactical

I am no good at trickery

you would easily see through me

a raging stream not crossable

I see you on the other side

now I just want to run and hide

you once made my heart feel so full

but suspicion and jealousy

drove you to pull away from me

our love had a magnetic pull

but my dark heart could not believe

that you could give yourself to me

if there but were a crucible

where I could melt your frozen heart

I'd never again let us part

is it in some way plausible

that we could work to fix our love

and once again be hand in glove

your love for me untraceable

I wish I had not let you go

I love you more than you can know

~cie~

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/11/27/hold-me-now-challenge-170/

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/11/28/saturday-mix-lucky-dip-28-november-2020/

Write a Costanza

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2020-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-24

Write a love or anti-love poem

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Tawddgyrch Cadwynog: The Story of Me

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left out, cast off

never let in

by friend and kin

misunderstood

never take off

never begin

never will win

she never could

~Cie~

The Gothic Greek Giant: An Evocative Espinela

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I don't know if he's very Gothic, but he is large and greenish.

I saw the Gothic Greek Giant

taking giant strides cool and slow

I don't know where he wants to go

laid back, but never compliant

although he is not defiant

the giant will never conform

he doesn't need to be the norm

he just wants to do his own thing

to paint pictures or sometimes sing

or just hang out and watch a storm

~Cie~