Monday, April 4, 2022

Day 4. Write A Poem About The Soft Animal Of Your Body

Write a poem about the soft animal of your body Better yet, write a poem about your body, animal or other

First verse: Love your body

-weigh its presence -impertinently impermanent- in whale blubber measures

-heft your round zaftig belly, yeasty soft as puppy love

-strut your sagging butt with peacock pride


Second verse: Work that body

-jiggle your rubenesque thighs with kittenish delight

-dance with monstery abandon -stomp your feet, and kick those toes, 

-lift your nose - glorious as a proboscis monkey’s - and stop to smell a rose


Third verse - Same as the first, maybe not worse?

-cup your sloppy droopy breasts, lift them to the glory of the goddess

-elevate your stooping dowager’s hump with fairy wings. Don’t forget to sing!

-grace your fingers, those sweet little gnarled twigs, with silly sparkling rings


Closing Couplet

Romp little poet, romp, romp, romp

You have mastered the poetry prompt

(with a nod to Mary Oliver)


Prompt: Write a poem . . . in the form of a poetry prompt.





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