2015 April PAD Challenge: Day 19
I have to admit: I was more than a little worried about yesterday's poem. But it looks like most people survived it. In fact, there were some incredibly tight pieces that emerged yesterday. Let's keep it rolling today.
For today's prompt, write an authority poem. Maybe you are an authority on something or know someone who is (or who thinks he or she is). Maybe you respect authority, or maybe not so much. Maybe you are on the run from the authorities, in which case I can only say good luck, but this blog probably isn't the best hiding place--especially with so many folks poeming away.
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Here's my attempt at an Authority Poem:
"star wars authority"
i'm no star wars authority but
i can spot a wampa & rancor
in a crowded convention center
so of course i have complicated
feelings when it comes to george lucas
i mean on one hand he created
the greatest space trilogy ever
but on the other hand he somehow
succumbed to the very same dark side
his characters always fought against
perhaps knowing & then forgetting
the extreme power of the dark side
like that scene with princess leia &
grand moff tarkin & he says he won't
blow up alderaan if she reveals
the location of the rebel base
& when she does he has the death star
blow her home planet up anyway
it is kind of exactly like that
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Today's guest judge is...
Dorianne Laux (photo by John Campbell)
Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux is the author of five collections, including The Book of Men (winner of The Paterson Prize), Facts About the Moon (winner of The Oregon Book Award), Awake, What We Carry (finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award), and Smoke, as well as two fine small press editions: Superman: The Chapbook and Dark Charms, both from Red Dragonfly Press.
Laux is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Among her awards are two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Learn more at DorianneLaux.net.
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Poem Your Heart Out, Volume 2
Poem Your Heart Out again!
The prompts from last year’s challenge along with the winning poem from each day ended up in an inspired little anthology titled Poem Your Heart Out. It was part prompt book, part poetry anthology, and part workbook, because each day includes a few pages for you to make your own contributions.
Anyway, the anthology worked out so well that we’re doing it again this year, and you can take advantage of a 20% discount from Words Dance by pre-ordering before May 1, 2015.
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