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Day 9 started out for me with poetic asides. Two for Tuesday comes around each week with opposites usually, and today’s prompt held true to the pattern. Write a hunter poem. Write a hunted poem. Here goes with two poems that each take liberties with humor. I don’t often do humor poetry, but Muse had other ideas this morning. Enjoy!
Stalking (Hunter Poem)
She slipped between ferns
a shadow among shadows,
one stealthy foot ahead,
one matching step behind,
knowing prey’s habits would
bring her success this day,
for habits become patterns
within shadow’s movements,
until she pounces.
“Gotcha! Tag, you’re it!”
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Inkling (Hunted Poem)
I am a tiny inkling
Clever as can be,
People chase their tails all day,
Just looking for me.
If I’m ever so wily,
I will be hidden;
when, at last, they go away,
I leap unbidden.
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For NaPoWriMo, writing turned to the dark side. “Slowly she turned…“ We’re told by the challenge’s leader, “I’m a sucker for a good mystery novel, especially the hard-boiled noir novels of the thirties and forties. There’s always a two-timing blonde, a city that keeps its secrets, and stuck in the middle, a man who just can’t help but rabbit after truth.”
Today’s challenge is to write a poem inspired by noir — it could be in the voice of a detective, or unravel a mystery, or just describe the long shadows of the skyscrapers in the ever-swirling smog.
Given this kind of prompt, my mind immediately goes to “write a story in verse” command mode. So I did, and here it is. I hope you enjoy a mystery.
Delicate (Noir)
Bizarre held sway
within this place
of black and white
edges and corners,
reaching out to impress
themselves upon unwary
types who goggle the
early morning show.
Cloying sweetness hung
in air inhaled,
covering death’s scent,
while he lay prostrate,
a testament to pain
and suddenness;
violent ends seldom
remain tidy for long.
Obvious explanation hides
within sight–a vase of
purity’s bells; white and sweet.
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