This month is a NaPoWriMo of sorts. A group I’m in decided to write a poem draft each day this month.
As always, life takes us in unexpected directions. A few of my friends have been dealing with sad — possibly life-and-death — news, and my thoughts are with them. These past few months taught me, more than I ever knew before, that I have to filter out some of what’s going on when there are too many things going on for one person to handle at one time.
I take them one by one and continue to write. By the way, even the good news can be distracting at times.
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A prompt for you. This is based loosely on a prompt someone gave in our poem-a-day group.
The Anagram Poem
1. Think up a title long enough to give you many other words. In my example, I wrote a poem called marriage. Words you can make from marriage include: gear, ream, rage.
2. Using the anagram software below, figure out what words exist in your title word(s). Try to make them at least four letters (not including ’s’). Get at least 6 words from your title word(s).
3. Write a 14-line poem using the 6 words anywhere in your poem.
Reference: Anagram Software
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I wish you luck… I just finished two of those months. One fellow in my group went on to a third month. I can’t decide if that’s dedication or just tomfoolery!
These past few months taught me, more than I ever knew before, that I have to filter out some of what’s going on when there are too many things going on for one person to handle at one time. …I take them one by one and continue to write. By the way, even the good news can be distracting at times.
Words to live by. Thanks .
One can also write anagram poems in which each line is an anagram of the first. Once, when I was very agitated and depressed (breakup blues), I did it with Dylan titles:
You’re gonna make me lonesome when you go
where eyes go. Unmake me, you, long moon on a
lake. O one, go, how you unsang me, my mere one.
Go anger, you lone omen, when you make me so
alone, our unknown game, o my eye goes home.
I was amazed by how expressive such a constraint could be.
Great prompt. I did this once for my name, and came up with a clever name for a character in story.
@ Ross and Nick — Thanks!
@Andrew — I don’t know that I could that. The one I wrote is easier than the one you proposed, and I still found my version challenging to the point of, well, insanity perhaps.
@Christine — Thanks for the shout on your blog.