This blog is devoted to a select group of poets. We're starting with poets from the Ann Arbor area, but, hey, if you're from Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw or the Upper Peninsula, then that is okay, too.
Our goal is to provide you with a prompt every day from which you are to garner inspiration and submit a poem. How to submit will be very easy. Just put your poem or short story in the comments section and hit post. You may not immediately see your post, but it is there under the "Comments" section. You may need to click on "Comments" to see your poem. It is there on another page.
Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "box/boxes"
Our goal is to provide you with a prompt every day from which you are to garner inspiration and submit a poem. How to submit will be very easy. Just put your poem or short story in the comments section and hit post. You may not immediately see your post, but it is there under the "Comments" section. You may need to click on "Comments" to see your poem. It is there on another page.
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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "box/boxes"
Empty Box
ReplyDeleteFor a practical joke
My father would cut out a small box
Poke his finger inside and
Hand it to me for a present
By age twelve I knew this was coming
I still screamed
Years later when he was buried
I tried to think of a practical joke
An object to place in his casket
That would keep him as frustrated and
Angry as I felt when that small box
Contained not a bracelet or a blue sapphire ring
A small hoped for thing
To feel equal and pretty
As the funeral director
Gave the family
The five-minute warning
I tucked a Guinness right below your sleeve
The bottle opener I tossed into the grave
Catherine Powers
Copyright 2013
THE LAW ABOUT BASEMENTS
ReplyDeleteI have inadvertently discovered a new universal law. It's an exciting discovery and I am looking for a journal that will publish my paper about it.
The paper is in its 2nd revision and currently runs 422 pages. There are no footnotes, I seem to be the only one who has written anything about this.
Here's a peek from the Introduction:
THE LAW ABOUT BASEMENTS
Every so often (-not often enough-), I know, I'm getting to it
...anyway
Every so often, I go down to the basement
and open up one of the boxes (-of the many boxes-)
of the many boxes that have followed me from
house to house (-city to city-) city to city (-state to state-) state to state
They contain the relics (-junk-)
the junk (-clutter-)
the clutter that has accumulated around me over the years
Every so often (-RARELY-)
Once in a while, I get rid of something
Then, two weeks later, I need it
It happens all the time (-once-)
And I'm certain that this indicates a universal law of some kind.
THE LAW ABOUT BASEMENTS
There is of course a basic methodological problem to solve first:
Does one go about testing this by seeking logical falsification?
Or through a controlled, double-blind experiment?
Plato or Aristotle. Again. (Always.)
I have notes about them somewhere.
in a box.
in the basement.
-Mike Fedel
April, 2013
A box of rain will ease the pain.
ReplyDeleteAnd love will see you through.
-Phil Lesh
"Box of Rain"