Today, I used the same prompt as yesterday, from the
archives of Napowrimo.net. Open a book, choose a word, brainstorm a list of new words from that
original one and create a poem. This is a fun prompt that gets you thinking and
I ended up with five poems: Black, Sketch, Voices, Blackbird and Corridor, which turned into some kind of horror film! Here’s
Sketch. Cheers.
Sketch
Charcoal lines take shape
Amid cross-hatch shading
For the parts missing light.
The artist contemplates
This still-life composite:
Pears in a turquoise bowl.
His imagination drifts
To the lure of landscape
Or the face of a woman
Smiling as he draws her.
But this bowl is the thing,
The task for the morning,
And he must find beauty
In something so ordinary.
His pencil flicks solitary,
Seeking an acquaintance
With this object without life.
Soon he’ll erase it all, but first
He sketches in a pair of eyes
To light up this dullness.
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, May 22, 2020
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