"The Oranges At the End of the Meal" (7-Minute NaPoWriMo Poem for 4/12) & Topic/Title for Today w/ Updates
The Oranges At the End of the Meal
There were oranges at the end of the meal
and oranges at the start in the salad, and
an orange peel of your long ponytail satiated
and served. Your sweet lips still pursed
to the tartness in that garden. Nothing sweet
could end that fantasy meal. The poached mandarins
puzzling the bloody meat all night; and when it hit
the flames and the succulent dying began again
in the dying dusk, we licked the beasts we were.
All night awake for you. All day, the pungent night
remembering in the whiff of your scent. All animals
came to the remembering fire, a ring of fire
like in Cash's wife's remembering hit song
as I watched the wood flare into working coals.
All that work that hid you away from our
particular sorrow. All the ways I made you
wait.
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today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 13 is:
"Kitchen Grief"
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today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 14 is:
"Silver"
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today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 15 is:
"Allure"
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today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 16 is:
"Oxygen"
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today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 17 is:
"Moonlight In Vermont"
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today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 18 is:
"Wet Feet"
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today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 19 is:
"First Thought"
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tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 20 is:
"Slaughterhouse"
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tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 21 is:
"Stenciled Memories"
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today's topic/title out of the hat for April 22 is:
"Heart Shaped Scars*"
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tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 23 is:
"Tension In the Body"
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tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 24 is:
"Testimony, Trial"
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Don't read ahead if you want to play along until the day of writing. Since I'll be in California on the 25th thru the end of the month, I'll post next week's topics/ titles out of the hat.
topic/title out of the hat for April 25 is:
"This Is Beat"
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topic/title out of the hat for April 26 is:
"Sandwiches"
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topic/title out of the hat for April 27 is:
"Polygamy"
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tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 28 is:
"How Good Sleep Sounds"
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topic/title out of the hat for April 29 is:
"Candy Bar"
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topic/title out of the hat for April 30 is:
"Live In the Moment"
There were oranges at the end of the meal
and oranges at the start in the salad, and
an orange peel of your long ponytail satiated
and served. Your sweet lips still pursed
to the tartness in that garden. Nothing sweet
could end that fantasy meal. The poached mandarins
puzzling the bloody meat all night; and when it hit
the flames and the succulent dying began again
in the dying dusk, we licked the beasts we were.
All night awake for you. All day, the pungent night
remembering in the whiff of your scent. All animals
came to the remembering fire, a ring of fire
like in Cash's wife's remembering hit song
as I watched the wood flare into working coals.
All that work that hid you away from our
particular sorrow. All the ways I made you
wait.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 13 is:
"Kitchen Grief"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 14 is:
"Silver"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 15 is:
"Allure"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 16 is:
"Oxygen"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 17 is:
"Moonlight In Vermont"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 18 is:
"Wet Feet"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/ title out of the hat for April 19 is:
"First Thought"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 20 is:
"Slaughterhouse"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 21 is:
"Stenciled Memories"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
today's topic/title out of the hat for April 22 is:
"Heart Shaped Scars*"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 23 is:
"Tension In the Body"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 24 is:
"Testimony, Trial"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don't read ahead if you want to play along until the day of writing. Since I'll be in California on the 25th thru the end of the month, I'll post next week's topics/ titles out of the hat.
topic/title out of the hat for April 25 is:
"This Is Beat"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
topic/title out of the hat for April 26 is:
"Sandwiches"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
topic/title out of the hat for April 27 is:
"Polygamy"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tomorrow's topic/title out of the hat for April 28 is:
"How Good Sleep Sounds"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
topic/title out of the hat for April 29 is:
"Candy Bar"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
topic/title out of the hat for April 30 is:
"Live In the Moment"
posted by Lorna Dee Cervantes at 5:28 PM
2 Comments:
I didn't realize there were topics. Thanks! Would you mind terribly emailing me the link to where you found these at campris@bellsouth.net??
Thanks. Your poems are going so well!!
Hi Pris,
Yes. I discovered a use for all these little slips of paper I've been keeping from past workshops. The description of the exercise is here and references to it are scattered throughout the April archives. I've been posting all of them at the MySpace blog.
Thanks so much for your kind comments and readership there. You have no idea how much it means to me. And congratulations on the great review by Michael Parker -- really astute, and it's good to see you get the recognition you deserve.
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