National Poetry Month '24: Penny for Your Thoughts
seems too small a price
considering inflation and all.
Who wants these thoughts anyway?
To cut to the chase,
they're just filled with worry.
Worries like these
can keep one up at night,
put butterflies in your stomach.
I suppose worries are a dime a dozen
anyway, there's always plenty
to go around.
Let's face it, worries hit us
at the drop of a hat
when we least expect them.
Though we try to push them away,
work to ignore them, they sneak up
when we least expect it.
It costs an arm and a leg
to bury them
deep in the earth.
© Cathy L. Mere, 2024
Of Note:
A little 4/28/24 update: Hold your horses! Early in Lockward's book, The Practicing Poet, Pattiann Rogers (pp. 75-81) talks about list poems. She shared a few examples of poets using idioms to write their poems. It was lighthearted and fun to read. I decided to try it after making a long list of idioms and looking for a thread that might work.
Then, this morning, I woke up to this post by Poets.org: "Parable" by Nichole Brown. Life is funny. This poem was music to my ears. It moved the goal posts, for sure. Bahahaha.
For April, I will be taking a deep dive into The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics, edited by Diane Lockward. This book is full of 30 craft tips, so it is the perfect way to shape this month's challenge and dig into the craft of poetry. Stop by my Substack page, Merely in Progress, to follow this month's writing journey, where you will also find reflections, links, and inspiration across the challenge. Of course, this month is all about writing poetry, so I will have a new poem posted here each day utilizing a craft tip from the book. Here we go.
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