CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to each and every person who once again managed to write thirty poems in thirty days. This has been my third year of participation and I have truly enjoyed the challenge.
FlameThrower! Poetry..
During the course of this years NaPoWriMo I have managed to write several of my (for want of a better description) FlameThrower! Poems. I first started writing them sometime last year, and the form has gone in a few different directions since then, but I now think I've found the way that I want these poems to read. I will put a couple of examples below, and some links for your further reading.
THE FLAMETHROWER! FORM
I think I developed the FlameThrower! form from my attempt at writing syllable sestina's. I was never very good at them, but I liked the repetition from the end of one line to the start of the next, and this kind of just blossomed into what I now call the FlameThrower!
Acrostic FlameThrower!
Here's an example of an Acrostic FlameThrower! poem.
Woden's day, woe betide the evening
Even now while the day is young there's death
Death without mercy for the numberless
Numberless, nameless nations of Woden.
Even though we wish it not so, so soon
So soon it will come without mercy, death
Deathly death and the foolish are afraid
Afraid like Virginia Woolf even?
Yet there is life for us to live today
Today, tomorrow and beyond to hell
Hellishness of hell the foolish relish
Relishing the blood without mercy yet.
Eternity meets time externally
Externally melts time, eternity...
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And here's an ordinary one:
YO BRAVO
Nic spells it out and shouts in frustration
frustrating me too, tarred with the same brush
brush strokes for beginners, alphabet blues
blue words for fingertip spelling with Nic.
Repeat after me, and do it like this
this is the best way to do it for her,
her sight has gone, and she can hardly hear,
hearing is so difficult, I repeat.
Alpha beat a gammer with a stick, no
no, no, that's the wrong alphabet, geek!
Geek: it's all Greek to me, he starts to shriek!
Shriek and you shall find, what's after alpha?
Bravo, Charlie said, and dealt her echo
echo of new fangled things, yo bravo!
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FINALLY
Here's a link to what I previously wrote about the FlameThrower! form.
An acrostic anagram FlameThrower!
In the one below, the anagram is revealed in the title, but you'll notice that the style or form isn't as fully developed as the other examples above. All of my poetry is experimental and is pretty much a first draft - therefore, I reserve the right to change it if I think it's necessary.
THE BAKER'S DOZEN
Every baker's dozen makes me wanna bake
Bake a cake, to take to kindergarten...
Kindda makes me wanna make one to eat
Eat it all up! All the good boys do that...
Rapunzel! you really must eat it all
All the cake on the plate, and when you're done
Down another one if you like, only...
Only then you'll have to make thirteen more.
Zustellung to them, those grim kids at school...
School children will like to eat them like this.
That is if we bake 'em at the hotel!
Hotel baking always tastes much better.
Eat it all up! like the good boys do now...
Now you know that this will last for ever.
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THE BAKER'S DOZEN (REVEALED)
That is if we bake 'em at the hotel...
Hotel baking always tastes much better!
Every baker's dozen makes me wanna bake
Bake a cake, to take to kindergarten...
All the cake on the plate, and when you're done
Kindda makes me wanna make one to eat
Eat it all up! All the good boys do that...
Rapunzel! you really must eat it all
School children will like to eat them like this
Down another one if you like, only...
Only then you'll have to make thirteen more.
Zustellung to them, those grim kids at school...
Eat it all up! like the good boys do now...
Now you know that this will last for ever.
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FlameThrower! BLOG
If you like the FlameThrower! form, and would like to read more of them as I write them, you will be very welcome at my Proper Joe's blog. Where I will be posting them on a regular basis. If you would like to write one yourself, please post it on your own site, and leave a link in my comments box - so that all my readers can enjoy it too.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and oh yeah, Happy NaPoWriMo!!!
