Friday, April 18, 2008

• No Connection

  Poetic Asides – Poem-A-Day Challenge – Day 18 prompt:
  
  

  Today's prompt is to take a line of my choosing and incorporate it into your poem in some way. You can use the line as the title of your poem, as the last line, as the first line, or even drop it somewhere in the middle--but you must use the line somewhere. And a special note to you "rule benders": No, you cannot break up the line into individual words or phrases. The whole line must be used, though you can definitely insert a line break or two if you wish.
  
  So, what's the line anyway? It is: There is no connection.
  
  No connection to what? And who is speaking? And in what context? These are questions you should ponder before tackling this prompt.
  

  
  
  Crossed Words
  
  seven tiles
  on the rack
  fingered and shuffled
  as my mind works
  to find a place
  on the board
  squares of red,
  pink, green, blue
  bonus points
  on my mind
  too many consonants
  not enough vowels
  between the words
  phone and develop
  needle and veto
  there is no connection
  for the letters
  I have drawn
  hate to pass and
  lose my chance
  at triple word score
  but there really is
  no other choice
  
  
  TLS, April 2008

  

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