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 "labels"
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.
You may need to have a Gmail account to post in the comments section. Most of you do have Gmail, but for those of you that don't it's extremely worthwhile to open up one now! That way you've got a chance to get your work out there in the world.
Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "labels"
Label
ReplyDeleteIn 10th grade
Pam and I peeled off the price tags
On the expensive bracelets at Hudson's
Why should the likes of us
Pay what working adults shoud pay?
We'd troll the aisles
Look for a bored sales clerk
About a few years older
Who couldn't care less if it was $4.98
Or a dollar forty-nine
It was some kind of sin
Not quite 10 Commandment stealing
A loophole provided
For Catholic girls shopping
An ambiguity in the system
Where a firm discount was okay
Catherine Powers
Copyright 2012
April 10, 2013
JARGON
ReplyDeletegay
freak
fanatic
scattered
dilettante
irresponsible
reckless
hack
Every field
has its own
secret
little
language
straight
jock
uncommitted
control-freak
expert
responsible
cowardly
profesional
I learned a long time ago
not to argue about whether
a bit of information
coming into a function()
is an argument or a parameter.
Really. It matters to some people.
grey area
grey area
grey area
grey area
grey area
grey area
grey area
grey area
AND
The name is not the thing
The name is not the thing
The name is not the thing
The name is not the thing
The name is not the thing
The name is not the thing
The name is not the thing
不識 [I] know not. (Fushiki.) Bodhidharma
[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/sayings.htm]
The important thing is to drop the labels
[http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/anthony-de-mello/63364]
- Mike Fedel
April, 2013