Monday, April 20, 2009

Day 19: “How Anger Comes to Me”

Here was the prompt for Day 19: "...today's prompt is to write an angry poem. That is, a poem about someone or something that gets angry. Could be a person, animal, or even them there angry clouds. As usual, I'm excited to see which unexpected directions y'all take with this prompt." Read more at: April PAD Challenge: Day 19





“How Anger Comes to Me”




It comes to me scowling

A leaping cheetah

Over my picket fence



It shakes me up like madness

By my shoulders

Rolling its red-coal eyes



It kicks me about violent

With boots at my butt

Deadening my hard skin



It bares the fangs of poison

Bites and claws

Spilling blood at my temples




It comes trampling my poetry

Wringing hands wiping its brows

Stretching the livid vowels in 'angry'

A and Y as if nothing mattered in between!


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3 comments:

  1. priti aisolaApril 21, 2009 at 11:34 PM

    Superbly created angry creature! I am sure your real anger is more contained ... milder. Smile.

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  2. AnonymousApril 22, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    lol Nabina first of all the pic made me smile somehow I can not associate anger with you:) but I found the poem very interesting and very lively. You really make it sound bad ..good work ..

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  3. fleuve-souterrainApril 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM

    lol thanks you both!

    the creature is a child of the Net! And I can be angry in those rare moments, quite disgustingly so...
    No, but writing abt anger makes me lose a lot of it:)

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