I've started playing with poetry again. One of my journaling list groups publishes prompt words every week or two. There's always a "poem" word. Three of the past poem words have been: Blanket, Sleeping, Clean.
For the first two pieces, I played with senryu (senryu has the same structure as haiku but doesn't require a seasonal reference).
The fourth entry recasts one of the previous words (Sleeping) as a different part of speech (Sleep). (To be honest, I composed this one because I misremembered the third posted word; inspiration comes in odd forms 🙂
BlanketBlanket on my bed |
SleepingSleeping with the cats |
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CleanMy cat sits on the windowsill
A cat must have a grooming gene |
Cat SongNow I lay me down in bed
Now I lay me down to sleep |
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Slightly Off KIlter 