NAPOWRIMO CONTEST // 22nd APRIL 2013 // A HUMMER IN MY HEAD

And now, the prompt. Today is Earth Day. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 and is now celebrated internationally. In honor of the occasion, I challenge you to write a poem in keeping with Earth Day — it could be a reflection on what’s growing in your garden, a modern pastoral, or a Marianne-Moore-style poem about an animal. Anything to do with the natural world is fair game. Happy writing!

 

 

TO THE STAFF OF NAPOWRIMO.NET

AH!

keep waiting for the day i will write anything about freakin’ Mother Nature .

sorry, so sorry

( not really )

i just can’t

human beings have been doing this since they learnt how to write.

the first words ever written on earth ? a poem about it.

again, again and again.

and again.

and again, again, again.

a hummer in my head.

oh, so banal and annoying..

kinda we are back in the 60s

kinda we are hippies on acid that actually think to be back in 60s

kinda we are fucking idiots

you said honesty is the best policy :

you didn’t put any effort in your prompt,

i won’t put any effort in my poem.

kind regards

a.aime