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.

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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

WEDNESDAY POETRY PROMPT #349

From Robert Lee Brewer's "Poetic Asides" blog.

Write a "running it's course" poem.


Baby Love


That was baby love we just made
We would say at the same time after
Coitus. You know that right?
Baby be here nine moths from now.
Not a day before or after.
If it's a girl let's name her Morgan.
But that was a boy shot he said
You know that right? Then it's done
We will name him after his dad.

WEDNESDAY POETRY PROMPT #348

From Robert Lee Brewer's "Poetic Asides" Blog


Write a "when everything stops" poem.


Don't Stop!

Sometimes I would like to just
Stop the world and get off this
Merry-go-round and round this
Rick-e-ty ride to nowhere.
But it's not my call.
I clearly understand, the cycle is
Perpetual; the wheels never stop
Turning we just get thrown off.

NAPOWRIMO 2016 DAY 30

Write a poem translated from a language you don't know.

A poem by Hanshan translated from Chinese


COLD CHILL


The atmosphere up high
Is where the snow drifts
Take away your breath
Freezing on contact with
Thin air.
Swirling birds of prey
Are the only thing that
Dare to stand on cold mountain.

NAPOWRIMO 2016 DAY 29

Write a poem based on things you remember.


PAPA'S FARM


I remember Papa on the farm feeding grain to baby chicks
In their wire-mesh coops. Churning cow's milk into butter
From a giant silver bucket . Plucking huge blackberries off
A prickly vine in a ditch by the road side. Butchering pigs in the pen
And hanging the sausage in the smokehouse.

I remember Papa sitting on the back porch on a cool summer evening
After supper drinking Jim Beam bourbon from a paper cup and smoking
A hand made Cuban cigar.

I remember Papa as a hardworking man on the  farm.

NAPOWRIMO 2016 DAY 28

Write a poem that tells a story--the story should be told backwards.



FALL SCENE AT JOHN BISHOP PARK


Blowing in the wind
The smell of fall
Cutting the grass with
A lawn mower
Trimming tree branches
With an electric saw
On the highway
A car engine revving
A plane in the sky overhead
I sit and watch and listen

NAPOWRIMO 2016 DAY 27

Write a poem with very long lines.


ALL YOUR CARDS ON THE TABLE


If you know what I think I know you'll get yours now. Don't wait for the big meeting on high.
There might not be no pie in the sky bye and bye. You got to go
With your gut feeling, go for what you know. Don't wait until the day you
Die. There might not be no pie in the sky bye and bye. Go for what
You really know not what I think I know. Life is too short to presume.