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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

November PAD Challenge 2021: Balloons Over Broadway

Image by Requieri Tozzi from Pixabay

whatever happened to the girl

who once dreamed of balloons flying over Broadway

as an awesome sign of admiration

for her latest cinematic triumph

she would be given the key to the city

a parade would be held in her honor

the clop of the horses would become a rumble

for the most amazing icon, the very best

she would settle for nothing less

did she have a stroke of bad luck

or was she too scared to compete?

she was never the right fit

for the part of the femme fatale

her face was much too ordinary

her hips were much too big

some may say it's sad what became of that girl

but she can't complain

she moved out to the country

her audience consists of horses and squirrels

who don't pay much attention

she likes baking pies

and living where folks don't have to lock their doors

she isn't keen for just scraping by

but she was never cut out for glitz and glamour

the high life would have brought her low

probably put her six feet under

it may be redundant to ask

if anything of that girl who hoped

for balloons over Broadway

and parades in her honor

remains hidden in the shadows

of the mind of an unglamorous old fat woman

who lives in a town small enough

that she could pedal to the sole store within minutes

perhaps the girl realized who she really was

or perhaps she couldn't live with the reality

either way, it's probably for the best

that her glitzy dreams never came true

beneath the sea of ubiquitous pretty faces

and impossibly slender bodies

courtesy of cocaine and starvation

Hollywood's heart is cold

~ornery owl~

Free use image from Open Clipart Vectors

https://amanpan.com/eugis-weekly-prompt-shadows-nov-18-2021/

Prompt: Shadows

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/11/22/wordle-267/

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-24

Prompt: write a response poem

I posed a question and wrote a response to it.

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2021/10/day-11-horses.html

Prompt: Horses

There are horses mentioned in this poem.

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Saturday, November 20, 2021

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

Image by sinapy from Pixabay

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://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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Friday, November 19, 2021

November PAD Challenge 2021: Sunset of the City

Image by 1987599 from Pixabay

At the back of the beginning

Beginning of the end

End of the day when the citizens stopped

Stopped being able to say “let’s pretend.”

Image by Bill Dodd

Pretend that tomorrow will just begin new.

New novel styles sweep us into the now.

Now everything we built lies covered in ashes.

Ashes of things that now seem unimportant somehow.

Image by Bill Dodd

Somehow we must realize before it’s too late

Late grows the hour and we need to stop doing

Doing nothing but step upon those who are lacking.

Lacking understanding will lead us to ruin.

~ornery owl~

90 Words

prompts

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

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/11/friday-writings-3-different.html

I utilized the phrase "at the back of the beginning" to open my poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-19

Prompt: Write a "future" poem

As a cold war kid, the potential for nuclear devastation always loomed on the horizon. In current times it seems more likely that any nuclear attack on the United States would take the form of a dirty bomb rather than a warhead.

Whatever the case, attitudes of intolerance do not foster an environment of peace and safety. The future in my poem is one that I would prefer to prevent.

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

I used the prompt words and used end-stopping on select lines. I'm not sure it works. I may remove it before the publication of the poem. The form is a loop poem. http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/looppoetry.html

https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com/2021/11/words-for-wednesday-17112021.html

The prompt was the two photos included in the poem.

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Thursday, November 18, 2021

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

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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