DAP Poetry Mondays: #CorpLife

 

Today is World Poetry Day. Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

World Poetry Day was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, "with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard".

Here is my contribution...

Corporations aren't...

People, Loving. In to you.

Life is optional

Living that CorpLife.

Hashtag; Nobody cares, bro.

Hearts are optional

--DAP Tales

DAP my characters: Kenji

 

Meet Kenji. I am currently working on his story and this is what I imagine him to look like. To be fair, I have been working on this story for over 12 years. Eeep! Sometimes, to help develop a character, I put the name in Google images, just to see what a person with this name would look like in general. Usually it fits. LOL!

Kenji Watanabe

Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)

Likes wood-working and does that for a living

Muscular 

A Hermit (most of the time)

Hasn't had a relationship for 10 years 

Christian

Once engaged but not married

A good cook

Only visited Japan once.

Monday poem -2-7-22

 

A vase shattered

In the smallest pieces.

Years of humble cracks

Withstanding the torments of tempests.

But now,

With nothing but a baby's breath,

The vase shattered.

Small pieces of painted daisies,

Scattered.

Only to find,

It isn't hollow

But,

Terraformed steel. 

A DAP new year

 

"Meow — it’s a good time to be you. So long as you live, love and dress yourself with the guiding principle that fortune favors the bold, there is no limit to what you can attract or to what heights you may ascend."-- Predictions from the NY times

Here's to hoping that every word of this prediction will come true.

DAP-Poetry Mondays

 

A haiku is often a three line poem that consists of a phrase and a fragment where two of the lines comprise the phrase and the other line is the fragment.  The fragment is either in the first or third lines.

Haiku are written in 17 syllables or less - preferably less according to the many online reputable sites. Haiku in English work the best around 10 to 12 syllables, otherwise they can become too wordy and this can cloud the image.

These days a haiku captures one or two moments by using clear and vivid images...roses evoke spring, fallen leaves relate to autumn, etc. The poets go outdoors and observe their surroundings; they write down images to capture a succinct scene. A reader should be able to read the haiku and "see" the images from the words. It's challenging. Basically a haiku is an unfinished poem - the readers interpret what it means by putting the images together.

On September 15, 2013, I uploaded to poemhunter my first poem. I was (and still am) proud of it.

Fingers like lighting

Now, typing insatiably

The printer vomits

Now this is my new poem for 1-24-2022

Seeking, 22 windows

The median in a house

Filled with our sunshine

 

I haven’t decided if I want to make this a podcast as yet. I really need to work on my video editing skills, so my poem exercises may come in handy.

Feeling this today!

KNOW WHEN TO HOLD 'EM: When to drop an idea or to start again.

 

Fly on the wall? In the writing room with the Brother's Grimm. All those years of research and then having to look at it all and put it into a body of work that has stood the test of time. Now it's my turn and I had to do something today, that I am getting tired of doing... Scrapping work that no longer matches the research. Ahhhhhh!

 

The next thing you know, you're going through the five stages of grief with your written pages.

Denial. "No! No! Not today!"

Anger. "Pleeese don't tell me that I spent all that damn time with this sheeeet! F dat!"

Bargaining. "I can make this work! It's not all down the drain! Surely I can use this paragraph somewhere else."

Depression. "I'm never going to finish this. Looks like I'll die with the music still inside me."

Acceptance. "Look, gul, you've chosen to do this. Future you is never going to forgive you for giving up and you know what a pill you can be."  

So, I add my complaint to the mountain of others when I say... "Writing is hard, yo!"

The concept is easy enough;

1. Get an idea. (I have tons of those!)

2. Vomit on the page. Forget about editing and get it all down. (This is my Achilles' heel. I keep editing or checking research)

3. Re-read and craft sentences.

4. Re-read and Edit.

Getting it all down it a more difficult than it sounds in my current project. There are 16 stories and just when I think that the tales are solid, WHAM! A YouTube video goes... SIKE! However, I am happy to report that I've got the outline... this time. No, really... It's ALL WORKED OUT! Umm, at least, I think so.