Welcome to Day 28 of my 30-Day Poetry Challenge!
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No winner today. I think we are all feeling fatigue as Poetry Month nears the end, you the readers/commenters, and I certainly am as the writer! I’ll do a raffle tomorrow, or not, no big deal. I’ve been so appreciative of how this project has gone so far.
Now onto today’s poem. Don’t forget to comment, and check back tomorrow to see if you’ve won!
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Today’s prompt: draft a prose poem in the form/style of a postcard. If you need some inspiration, why not check out some images of vintage postcards?
Note: Mine took a dark turn…
Dear So-and-So… Wish You Were Here
It sounds so friendly, doesn’t it? You assume the missing “I” of course, the excited exclamation. That I long for your dear company here in this balmy sun-splashed paradise, sipping mai-tais together on the beach. But oh, what if actually the “don’t you” is absent, the question taunting, my sadistic side wanting to remind you, I’m on vacation and you aren’t? Well, it eases my resentment over this day writing postcards out of guilt. Buying cheery cards, stamps, scribbling while palm trees sway above me, find a tropical post office somewhere. There, don’t you wish you were me?
Let’s get lunch when I get home. I’ll show you all the photos! Passively aggressively yours…
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April is National Poetry Month, which was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996.
This month’s posts are part of the NaPoWriMo challenge — that’s National Poetry Writing Month. At NaPoWriMo.net, you’ll find links to other participating writers and their poetry. AND daily writing prompts for inspiration to write your own poems. Check them out.
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Photo credit: Vintage postcard off of Pinterest, and Ricardo Gomez, courtesy of Unsplash.com
Very funny Theresa…like your darker side, and I can see myself in those shoes- or sandals !
Nice Job. It is hard to write evry day!
Ha! Passive aggressively yours! I once had an argument with someone about whether I was passive aggressive or not (an odd argument, I know), but as it turns out there’s multiple types of aggression.
Anywho, I didn’t find this poem particularly dark. And I enjoyed it in an odd sort of way. So maybe it’s dark in just the right way.
I had some trouble with this prompt, but I got it done so it looks like I’m going to make it after all!
Yeah, quiet resentment stirred up in a poem-juicy!
An aside-Do they still sell postcards?
Oh yes, Barbara… I do still see postcards out there, and even receive them from time to time. It’s does have an old-school feel to it now, when you can just post about a trip on Facebook so easily.