Monday, July 2, 2012 Poetry Prompt…
Select one particular day in history (the world’s or your personal experience) and write a poem contrasting the same day in the present.
Here is my response to the “This Day In History..” prompt…
Summer Solstice
On this,
The Longest Day of the Year,
The Ancients would celebrate
Or sacrifice
Or prophesy.
Today,
Sun blazing past our bedtime,
Kids race through the sprinkler
And laugh
And squeal.
Tomorrow,
The Great Clock begins its descent
And the world will hibernate
Or re-create
Or perish.
A year from now, where will we be,
with the sun at its zenith, shining down on me?
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Direct link to the day. Thanks. Once again, I enjoyed the prompt.
Randy
http://thewritersvillage.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/when-he-was-born-kbnelsons-poetry-prompt-reason-2-rhyme-this-day-in-history/
I’m in love with your poem for today – still thinking about it! Thanks for joining in!
thank you!
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I made an attempt again this week
. Here is mine http://boomiebol.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/she-came-back-home/
So glad you are a repeat offender!
It’s great having you back this week! Headed your way now…
It’s still Monday and I made it under the wire! Here’s my contribution for the prompt this week. Hope you like it! http://singmylife.com/
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Hi Karen,
Here it is as midnight approaches. The froggylink page had old links so i wasn’t sure what to do there. posting the link here and then will try to sort it out. Also going to read everyone’s poems.
Aloha,
Doug
http://ironwoodwind.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/flying-with-amelia/
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“Fourteenth of August”
On fourteenth of August,
Nineteen fourteen,
A Great War of the Just,
Quite unforeseen;
All men fought, as they must,
War to end endless wars,
Rations, millions
Fell from sky, meteors
To depths, and wept,
Obedient to orders.
Utopia was lost,
Grasped at, gasped at,
Regent’s death not worth cost,
Youth gone, dead longed,
A generation lost.
On fourteenth of August,
One month, short jump
From War, three thousand just
Dust, leaped, ash-heaped,
And men fought, as they must,
Longest war to end war;
Wi-fi, they die,
Heated, armored, filmed live,
Knights of lore;
On fourteenth of August
Utopia fooled us,
The best of West,
Of the East, again lost,
Patriots, Zealots,
Same slow, cool-counted cost;
Youth gone, dead longed,
Our generation lost.
Eric M. Vogt
Copyright 2012
Very good, rapid-fire verse Eric! I especially like your knack for internal rhyme. Great comparison of the two time periods, as well!
Thanks for jumping in this week!
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