April 12. Today’s brief; try writing a poem that makes reference to one or more myths, legends, or other well-known stories, that features wordplay (including rhyme), mixes formal and informal language, and contains multiple sections that play with a theme. Try also to incorporate at least one abstract concept – for example, desire or sorrow or pride or whimsy.
I was fishing with friends today and wrote this in reflection.
The labouring Hercules would shiver in fear at these tests,
A pallid shadow of strength and strategy by comparison
Man versus man versus fish in a game of chess.
Dawn calls our saliva to attention with bacon breezes,
Rape pollen abuses our nasal senses
Inducing rampant, snotty sneezes emitting Bream slime.
Reputations rest on our gaming success,
Frogs, Chiffchaff and Blackcaps cheer on in chorus from wind wilted reeds,
Men in competition with Golden Rudd, doing angling deeds.
In still waters dark Carp clouds haunt the waters that reflect buttercream clouded skies,
A hot jet knife slices through it with ease
Its jet-setting shoal ignorant of our goal.
Floats tips dip below the wet surface quicker than a concubine slips her moist slips,
There’s no time to waste in this competition, but hasty strikes take no prizes.
On the day every cast off worry makes every man a winner.
Missives & Musings 