ZOLAR'S DREAM BOOK

Write entries for an imaginary dream dictionary

                                      S

Seagulls - If in your dream the gull has
                 A broken wing a long journey
                 Is possible

                 A gull feeding on food at the
                 Pier is warning be weary of
                 Wandering dogs walking

                 Gulls in flight against a windy breeze
                 Indicative of a close friend quickly
                 Leaving your life
           

Note: These revelations are for entertainment purposes only

SHEOL

Write a poem in which the words or meaning of a familiar phrase gets upended.

"IF THERE'S A HELL BELOW WE ALL GONNA GO"




Where hell is below
Everybody will soon go
Beneath the cold earth

THE OHIO WILDS

Write a haibun that takes in the natural landscape of the place you live.



Stretching from the Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio River in the south to Lake Erie in the north, Ohio brings a variety of scenes. As you travel through Canal Winchester, rural farm areas become suburban towns become the streets of the big city. These paved metropolis highways often turn into winding backwoods roads in a heartbeat. Then out of nowhere roads become cow paths from a century ago. During springtime these woodland areas are filled with an array of beautiful Spring flowers, violets and orchids permeating the air with their scents. They are native to the buckeye state.

                                                            Flowers when planted
                                                            Respond to their true nature
                                                            They have to blossom

MATURITY

Write a poem that addresses the future


When leaf buds unfold
On the branch of apple trees
Flowers start to grow

FREE SPIRITS

Write a poem of simultaneity in which multiple things are happening at once.




Coming down the road from
The cotton field early one
Fall evening side by side
With Papa JL saw a
Haint a spook and a
Restless spirit walking along
Beside them. He had the
Gift. Right there Papa he
Pointed ahead leading the way.
When they got to the
House they all ran in
The girl's room raising a
Ruckus beneath the bed sheets
Grabbing everybody's legs kissing
Their faces pulling they hair
Papa got his shotgun. Where
They at boy show me
Where. Papa took aim. There
They all go Papa slipping
Out the window. But
You can't shoot no spirit
You can't...BLAM!

OVERCAST DAY

Write a poem in which something big and something small come together


Hot summer noon sun
Hangs high in a firmament
Of blue wispy clouds 

MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY...

Write a poem in which mysterious and magical things occur.




On the night before when
Doctor King went down
He looked out across
The mountain top
High above the ground

And like Moses on Sinai
He saw the promised land
But the outcome of his vision
Was not in his hand

I may not go with you but
Mine eyes have seen the glory
What did he really mean
What's the moral of the story

COMPETITIVE NATURE

List all of your different layers of identity.

Write a poem in which one of the identities contends or talks with another identity 

Move out clear the way

Father time I reign supreme

But my brotherly

Love is for adversity

As a friend I always love

OBSERVATION

Write a poem that stretches your comfort zone with line breaks.



Miss the city
Not the noise
Or air pollution
Of New York
In Ohio
I inhale fresher air
I see the Audubon Field Guide's

Local birds feeding on my front lawn
I hear mostly quiet
Or white noise or
The whistle of an infrequent freight train
Flying to the edge of nowhere or
Above everything else
I hear the tic-toc
Of my mortality clock

COLD MOUNTAIN

Translate (write)  a poem from a language not your own.

(221)
A poem by Hanshan translated from Chinese by Lonewolf

Up high
               where I dwell
the snow drifts
                takes away your breath
 freezes on contact
                 with the air swishing
through elevated skies
                  where snowy peaks
of clouds drift away
                                 in swirls         

TRUTH BE TOLD

Write a poem about something abstract





For the record
Even on the wings
Of the wind justice
Does not roll down

Like flood waters
Freedom's cosmic noise
Does not sound like
The liberty bell ringing

NOW PLAYING

Write a list poem...



RARE EARTH was indeed rare
A soulful white band as soulful as
THE AVERAGE WHITE BAND
Was or THE JIMI HENDRIX
EXPERIENCE breaking ground
Like those OHIO PLAYERS were
Unique crooners unlike SLY and
THE FAMILY STONE a mixed
Band of musicians my fave as a
Teen and do not forget the
FUNKADELIC speaking of which
When you talking funk you gotta
Bring on the JAMES BROWN
BAND playin it loud

STREET TALK

Write a poem that plays with voice



Ounces got halves trays
Got pills got crack reefer coke
Wanna take a hit
All of life's complexities
Will soon become clear

SQUARE ONE

Write a poem that is based on a secret shame or a secret pleasure.



Some say it's no shame
Yet not a secret either
No one wants to talk
Racial injustice has not
Dropped off the edge of the earth

NAPOWRIMO 2017 DAY 20

WRITE A POEM THAT INCORPORATES THE VOCABULARY AND IMAGERY OF A SPECIFIC SPORT OR GAME

SPEAKING OF ASPECTS




First of all
I don't know why
They would even
Bring up astrology
Speaking on it as
If they had some sort
Of experience forecasting
Strengths and weaknesses
Of planetary positions as
They orbit the zodiac
In sextile or trine aspects
Of lunar cycles and solar
Eclipses in a natal birth
Chart because believe it
Or not I have studied the
Fine art of prognostication
They have not

NAPOWRIMO 2017 DAY 19

WRITE A POEM THAT RECOUNTS A CREATION MYTH

THE BEGINNING OF BEGINNINGS



Impending flood interrupts
Daily comforts of the
Black headed people
Of Mesopotamia
Blessings bestowed

By the Sumerian gods of
Ancient Iraq seven
Days and nights a terrible
Storm released waters
Which over ran the land

A chosen few were saved from
Extinction when the sun god
Utu appears and recreates
Life from the remnants
Of the ark
In the end was the beginning
Of beginnings

NAPOWRIMO 2017 DAY 18

WRITE A POEM THAT INCORPORATES NEOLOGISMS OR MADE-UP WORDS.

SILLY STORY




That love at first sight
Fiasco was iffycadiculous
From the jump especially
Looking at it from a humanistical
Perspective because people
Change their nature switch
Horses in mid-stream become
So deymonished
They don't even love you
Like that anymore but you
Knew that already yet
You still fell for the noshonment
Story I don't understand some
Silliness makes no sense

NAPOWRIMO 2017 DAY 17

WRITE A NOCTURNE; A ROMANTIC OR DREAMY MUSICAL  PIECE APPROPRIATE TO EVENING OR NIGHT. TRANSLATE THIS SENSIBILITY  INTO POETIC FORM.

SECOND CHANCE





Got a broken


Heart to mend


Taking a chance


On love again


Taking a chance


On trust again


Until true love's


My friend again

NAPOWRIMO 2017 DAY 16

WRITE A POEM IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO A PERSON, PLACE, OR THING, OR IN THE FORM OF A BACK-AND-FORTH CORRESPONDENCE

SUICIDE NOTE




Dearest lover by
The time you read this
My life will be over
But in case you should
Wonder why your
Sweet good thing
Would want to die I
Sat down and wrote
This suicide note.
Who would've thought
Us coming to an end
After all we've been
To each other not us
Not ever I thought the
Love we had would last
Forever and life without
You now what on earth
Would I do so I hope you
Understand my pledge
To live without your love
I'd rather be dead.

NAPOWRIMO 2017 DAY 15

WRITE A POEM THAT REFLECTS ON THE NATURE OF BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING

MIDLIFE CRISIS


As I am now in the
Autumn of my
Years I look behind
And see vignettes of
The man I grew into
Look forward to
Smoothly transitioning
To the wheel of
Elderly life all
The  while hoping
Saying a prayer
To see my
Grandchildren grow
And maturate become
Seeds of hope for
The next generation