A Poem a Day (500): Planet pop

 
NaPoWriMo 2022 was a fun month of writing, so for May I’m using the prompts from April 2021’s NaPoWriMo to write poems.
 
Day 1 

And without further ado, our daily prompt (optional, as always)! Sometimes, writing poetry is a matter of getting outside of your own head, and learning to see the world in a new way. To an extent, you have to “derange” yourself – make the world strange and see it as a stranger might. To help you do that, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by this animated version of “Seductive Fantasy” by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. If you don’t feel after watching it a little bit like the top of your head’s been taken off, and your thoughts given a good stir – well, maybe you are already living in a state of heightened poetic awareness!

 

Planet pop

 
Coloured waves of sound
punctuate, take us on a trip,
blowing faint, blowing loud,
sound under sound, a sonophonic
breath. Spiral echoes of the same
float in and out on rolling surf
of plenitude. The planets swirl,
alien faces peek from clouds of pink
neon flutters. Leafy long plants pop
and grow, in rhythm, to be sucked
back into ground. It’s a planet pop.
Red glow the fluorescent butterflies,
the Salvador Dali strokes of paint,
sliding and dripping picturesque.
The trumpet sounds its dreamscape,
outstretched hands hold life up.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, May 2, 2022