Category — Prompt

Today, I want you to write a poem based on a piece of art that you absolutely love and are moved by that is hanging in a museum within 160km (100 miles) of your house. The rules are thus:

a) 21 lines
b) Alternating long and short – no more than 6 words in the long lines, 3 words in the short lines.
c) You must not use any words from the title of the piece in your poem. Nor may you use the name of the museum where it is found.
d) The title of your piece can have any words you wish, and give the key to find the piece you’re talking about.
e) The poem is to tell the artist why the piece is cruel, wrong, missing something, not quite perfect. You may beg, threaten or cajole the artist as you choose. They may be living or dead, it’s fine either way.
f) post a link to the museum or piece AFTER the work, but otherwise, no notes or comments as to what the poem means or why. If you can’t say it in the work – it must be left unsaid.

a) Love is the simplest thing in the universe.
b) Love is the most complicated thing in the universe.
c) Love is fleeting.
d) Love is eternal.
e) There are dozens of words in the english language that describe some form of love. (which is fortunate for poets since it really helps with the rhyming and meter options)

Suppose I cracked open my head and a thousand images drained out onto the concrete. Suppose you could see religion in the blood and atheism in the brain cells. Suppose my left leg twitched one last time before I was gone, and it sounded like a little breeze through the cat o’ nine tails?

Would you write that poem?

1. Write down three of your favorite things
2. Write a story of a 13-year-old member of the opposite sex who obsessively needs and wants those three things, but must not (for whatever reason) have them.
3. Repeat your first line at least 5 times.  In context, allow it to shift meaning.
4.  You can not use the word obsess (or any varient)

The title of this piece is, “My Family Defines Me”

Your name is Sidhartha.
Your Mother’s Name is Mary.
Your Father’s name is Lao.
You may or may not have siblings. If you do, they are all rabbits. If you don’t, they are catholic.

You live by a river.
You make silk.

You believe in something, there are only three possible  things to believe, but you can only believe one:
a) Beauty
b) Love
c) Truth.

Write on McFluff. Write on.