my story isn’t
your story
with a foreign accent.
it can’t speak. devious
it signs an inspired sleep.
between us,
strange kinship slips. it’s not
freudian,
but wishful. thinking its
enchanted thoughts, i won’t
lure you. a venus, all
torso, no alluring
sins, it won’t
feed the lotus readers
who’ve left off caring if
my story is.
Bold is not one of my favorite words, and it may require extensive psychoanalysis to uncover why. Clever fellow that I am, I worked it into the title, so all wordle words have yet again been vanquished. Brenda's moved the prompt site over to WordPress, so here's the new address where you can find the other poets' contibutions:
The Sunday Whirl
11 comments:
Francis, A friend's mom once called me bold in an unapproving tone. It's always stuck with a wee bit of shame.
Your story is. It fed this lotus reader.
Francis, you sometimes leave me wondering how things will turn out?¿ I like that.
Pamela
Please, Francis, can I have some moe?
Excellent poem, Francis - a different take on the wordle. I enjoyed reading it. :)
The word verification for this comment: musin. There are so many wordplays that could come from that... Example: I find it amusin' to be musin' when I let my muse in. ;)
@Brenda The word does have strange connotations. I even try to avoid "bold" text :).
@Pamela Thanks... my life is an open book, and its pages are filled with open questions ;).
@Viv You can count on a regular helping here every week.
@Traci I've written several poems based on those word verification prompts. They're a great source of material.
After the first reading I had to remind myself this was from the wordle and go back and look for the words. Despite its apparent simplicity, the poem works so well the words do not stand out.
margo
PS My daughter tells me the words chosen for the verification are words from manuscripts some major museum is trying to decipher. I would love to know that story.
Francis, I love your wordplay in this one. You've put the punctuation in, but broken lines and set your stanzas to hint at other meanings. There is "it can't speak. devious" and then "it can't speak devious". You story definitely "is".
Richard
I shouldn't have stayed away so long Francis. Your writing is inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
I don't remember every rereading a poem four times trying to dredge out all its meaning. I really like this, but I'll bet a shrink could write a book on it.
You included all those challenging wordle words so perfectly that I wouldn't have known this was a wordle if you hadn't told us! And I love lotus reader. Refreshing in it's originality! My things are always stodgy and predictable.
@Margo I think it's the "re-captcha" verification that aid in the transcribing of old manuscripts. I don't think that's true for the Blogger word verification, but I could be wrong. I've always found the Blogger prompts to be pretty random.
@Richard Thanks, I think I might revisit some of the other line breaks, but I do like the one you pointed out.
@McDishy Thanks for reading. I know it's hard to keep up with so many great poetry blogs out there. I'm constantly finding so much great stuff, and they inspire me quite a bit.
@Mike I'm glad it stands up to multiple readings. I've tried to avoid shrinks because it would probably become a lifetime commitment :).
@Marianne I don't find you're poetry stodgy or predictable. It strikes me as very lyrical.
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