Today’s challenge?
To write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments.
Our inspiration?
To take a look at Joe Brainard’s poem “30 One-Liners” or Frank O’Hara’s “Lines for the Fortune Cookies.”
I looked and was stimulated by the following line.
“Many successful monostich poems will use the juxtaposition of a title with the one-liner to create a poem in the space between.”
I tried to score that goal with an assembly off one-liners to create a monostich for the mind.
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The immeasurable distance between this title and the galleries that open before the following missing punctuation
The reason there is only ever one shoe by the side of the road
A cold bread knife with blue blood and sourdough crumbs
The multicoloured menagerie of empty pages in an invisible book
A made bed in which the need for sex is no longer needed
The ability to spot the odd one in
The sharing of the secret to unravelling the Great Melange
The galaxy of seeing aromas, hearing taste, sniffing sounds and eating words
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Image borrowed from Creative Educator
Missives & Musings 
Your response to the poem, and the line that stimulated you, really appealed to me and I enjoyed your monostich for the mind and what it conjured up for me. I especially liked ‘The galaxy of seeing aromas, hearing taste, sniffing sounds and eating words’.
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Thanks Kim, apologies for taking time to respond, I have a major campervan renovation project that is taking up lots of my time right now.
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You’re welcome, Graham – no hurry responding. I hope the camper van turns out a beauty.
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I like the mix-n-match of sensations and situations — especially “The galaxy of seeing aromas, hearing taste, sniffing sounds and eating words”
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That last line could easily be my summation of what I’ve learnt as a result of joining NAPOWRIMO each year.
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